Mechanical Behavior & Performance of
Granular Bases & Sub-bases in Pavements

By Andres Ariel Van Niekerk
December 2002
Delft University Press
ISBN: 90-407-2335-4
536 pages, Illustrated, 6 ½ x 9 ½"
$99.50 paper original

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This doctoral dissertation presents the results of an extensive research performance into the mechanical behavior of granular and lightly bound base materials and sand sub-base materials and the associated performance of pavements in which such materials are applied. To this end a very large number of cyclic and static load triaxial tests have been performed on sands, mix granulates and hydraulic mix granulates. In addition the obtained stress dependent failure, resilient and permanent deformation behavior has been implemented in Finite Element calculations to demonstrate the performance of a variety of pavement structures in relation to the behavior of these materials.



Civil Engineering

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