Case study and back analysis of a residential building damaged by expansive soils

Computers and Geotechnics

Volumn 56, Issue , 2014, Pages 89-99

  Li, Jie ^a   Cameron, Donald A ^b   Ren, Gang ^a  

^a RMIT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Back analysis; Case study; Expansive soils; Finite element; Residential footing

Indexed keywords

BACK ANALYSIS; EXPANSIVE SOILS; FIELD INVESTIGATION; MOISTURE CONDITIONS; NON-UNIFORM SOILS; RE-ENTRANT CORNERS; RESIDENTIAL BUILDING; RESIDENTIAL FOOTING;

GROUNDWATER; RESEARCH; SOIL MOISTURE; WATER PIPELINES;

FINITE ELEMENT METHOD;

BACK ANALYSIS; BUILDING; EXPANSIVE SOIL; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; FOOTING; FOUNDATION; SOIL-STRUCTURE INTERACTION; STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING;

EID: 84890166368     PISSN: 0266352X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compgeo.2013.11.005     Document Type: Article

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