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Suction of compacted residual soils

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Unsaturated Soils: Experimental Studies

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  1. Post doctoral Fellow, Laboratory of Soil Mechanics, Bauhaus University Weimar, Germany

    S. Tripathy

  2. Associate Professors, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

    E. C. Leong & H. Rahardjo

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  1. Professur Bodenmechanik, Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, Coudraystraße 11c, 99421, Weimar, Germany

    Tom Schanz

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Tripathy, S., Leong, E.C., Rahardjo, H. (2005). Suction of compacted residual soils. In: Schanz, T. (eds) Unsaturated Soils: Experimental Studies. Springer Proceedings in Physics, vol 93. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-26736-0_9

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