APPLICATION OF CONSTITUTIVE MODELS IN THE VOLCANIC TEPHRA “TIERRA BLANCA JOVEN”

  The volcanic tephra Tierra Blanca Joven (TBJ) covers most of the Metropolitan Area of San Salvador where problems of mass wasting problems occur. To understand its behavior the Mohr-Coulomb, Modified Cam Clay and Hypoplasticity constitutive models were used to simulate consolidation and triaxial...

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Main Authors: Jose Alexander Chavez Hernandez, José Miguel Landaverde Quijada, Oscar Edgardo Ayala Valdez, Lesly Emidalia Mendoza Mejia
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Universidad de Costa Rica 2014-06-01
Series:Ingeniería
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Online Access:https://revistas.ucr.ac.cr/index.php/ingenieria/article/view/12103