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Visualization of Failure and the Associated Grain-Scale Mechanical Behavior of Granular Soils under Shear using Synchrotron X-Ray Micro-Tomography
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Analysis of shearogram reconstruction

S L Toh, C J Tay, H M Shang

    Applied Optics
    |September 11, 2010
    PubMed

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