Construction, management and maintenance of embankments used for road and rail infrastructure: implications of weather induced pore water pressures

Acta Geotechnica

Volumn 9, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 799-816

  Glendinning, Stephanie ^a   Hughes, Paul ^a   Helm, Peter ^a   Chambers, Jonathan ^b   Mendes, Joao ^c   Gunn, David ^b   Wilkinson, Paul ^b   Uhlemann, Sebastien ^d  

^a NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b BRITISH GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE   (Australia)

^d ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Embankments; Field monitoring; Partial saturation; Permeability; Pore pressures; Suction

Indexed keywords

CONSTRUCTION; EMBANKMENT; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; PERMEABILITY; RAILWAY TRANSPORT; ROAD; TRANSPORTATION INFRASTRUCTURE; WATER CONTENT; WATER RETENTION;

UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 84939871673     PISSN: 18611125     EISSN: 18611133     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11440-014-0324-1     Document Type: Article

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