An in-situ free-fall piezocone penetrometer for characterizing soft and sensitive clays at finneidfjord (Northern Norway)

Submarine Mass Movements and Their Consequences - 5th International Symposium

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 99-109

  Steiner, Alois ^a   L'Heureux, Jean Sebastien ^b,c   Kopf, Achim ^a   Vanneste, Maarten ^c   Longva, Oddvar ^b,c   Lange, Matthias ^a   Haflidason, Haflidi ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

^b GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF NORWAY   (Norway)

^c NORWEGIAN GEOTECHNICAL INSTITUTE   (Norway)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

Author keywords

Free fall cone penetration testing; Soft and sensitive clay; Submarine landslide; Weak layer

Indexed keywords

SUBMARINE GEOLOGY; TWO DIMENSIONAL;

CLOSED FORM SOLUTIONS; CONE PENETRATION TESTING; GEOTECHNICAL EVALUATION; PENETRATION RATES; PORE-WATER PRESSURES; SENSITIVE CLAYS; SUBMARINE LANDSLIDES; WEAK LAYER;

SUBMARINES;

EID: 84901606983     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1007/978-94-007-2162-3_9     Document Type: Conference Paper

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