Comparison of direct simple shear confinement methods on clay and silt specimens

CIVINS === ASTM D2435 (2000) allows for both Teflon coated stacked rings and wire reinforced membranes to be used as confinement methods in direct simple shear (DSS) testing of soils. Although stacked rings were developed over 50 years ago, wire reinforced membranes have been used almost exclusively...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: McGuire, Seth T.
Other Authors: Ocean Engineering
Published: 2012
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10945/24345