Small strain stiffness of a soft clay along stress paths typical of excavations

Solid Mechanics and its Applications

Volumn 146, Issue , 2007, Pages 299-310

  Fortuna, S ^a   Callisto, L ^a   Rampello, S ^a  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EXCAVATION; SOILS; STIFFNESS;

APPROXIMATE PROCEDURES; CROSS-ANISOTROPIC; IN-SITU MEASUREMENT; LIMIT EQUILIBRIUM; NUMERICAL RESULTS; SIMPLIFIED ANALYSIS; SMALL-STRAIN STIFFNESS; UNDISTURBED SAMPLE; DEVIATORIC STRAIN;

STRAIN;

EID: 84879071819     PISSN: 09250042     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4020-6146-2_14     Document Type: Conference Paper

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