Moisture monitoring in clay embankments using electrical resistivity tomography

Construction and Building Materials

Volumn 92, Issue , 2015, Pages 82-94

  Gunn, D A ^a   Chambers, J E ^a   Uhlemann, S ^a,c   Wilkinson, P B ^a   Meldrum, P I ^a   Dijkstra, T A ^a   Haslam, E ^a   Kirkham, M ^a   Wragg, J ^a   Holyoake, S ^a   Hughes, P N ^d   Hen Jones, R ^b   Glendinning, S ^b  

^a BRITISH GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

^b NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^d DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Embankments; Moisture; Railway; Resistivity

Indexed keywords

BIOMIMETICS; CLIMATE CHANGE; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; EMBANKMENTS; MOISTURE; MOISTURE DETERMINATION;

ASSET MAINTENANCES; EARLY INTERVENTION; ELECTRICAL RESISTIVITY TOMOGRAPHY; MOISTURE MONITORING; MONITORING FRAMEWORKS; RAILWAY; TEMPORAL AND SPATIAL; TRIGGER CONDITIONS;

MOISTURE CONTROL;

EID: 84930277856     PISSN: 09500618     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.conbuildmat.2014.06.007     Document Type: Article

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