Hydro-mechanical behavior of undisturbed collapsible loessial soils under different stress state conditions

Engineering Geology

Volumn 195, Issue , 2015, Pages 28-41

  Garakani, Amir Akbari ^a   Haeri, S Mohsen ^a   Khosravi, Ali ^a   Habibagahi, Ghassem ^b  

^a SHARIF UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

^b SHIRAZ UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

Author keywords

Collapsible loess; Hydro mechanical behavior; Shear strength; Suction stress; Undisturbed sampling; Unsaturated soil

Indexed keywords

CRITICAL CURRENT DENSITY (SUPERCONDUCTIVITY); HARDENING; SEDIMENTS; SHEAR STRENGTH; SHEARING; SHEARING MACHINES; SOILS; STRESS ANALYSIS;

COLLAPSIBLE LOESS; CONTINUOUS MEASUREMENTS; CONVENTIONAL TRIAXIAL TEST; CRITICAL STATE LINES; CYLINDRICAL SPECIMENS; HYDRO-MECHANICAL BEHAVIOR; SUCTION STRESS; UNSATURATED SOIL;

STRESSES;

COLLAPSIBLE SOIL; HYDROMECHANICS; LOESS; SHEAR STRENGTH; STRESS FIELD; TRIAXIAL TEST; UNSATURATED MEDIUM;

GOLESTAN; GORGAN; IRAN;

EID: 84936103503     PISSN: 00137952     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.enggeo.2015.05.026     Document Type: Article

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