Vertical Yield Stress of Pisa Clay from Piezocone Tests
Publication: Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering
Volume 127, Issue 10
Abstract
A database containing seismic piezocone soundings performed in the geotechnically well-characterized Pisa clay has been used to verify the validity of the existing empirical relationships linking vertical yield stress to normalized cone resistance. Yield stresses from odometer tests performed on high-quality undisturbed samples were used as reference values.
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Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering
Volume 127 • Issue 10 • October 2001
Pages: 893 - 897
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Received: Oct 27, 1999
Published online: Oct 1, 2001
Published in print: Oct 2001
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