Analytical solution for vacuum preloading considering the nonlinear distribution of horizontal permeability within

Jie Peng1, Xiang He1, Hanming Ye1

  • 1Research Institute of Geotechnical Engineering, Hohai University, Nanjing 210098, PR China.

Plos One
|October 9, 2015
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