An experimental investigation on the water retention behaviour of a silty soil for the computation of the lateral earth thrust on a retaining wall

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Issue		E3S Web Conf. Volume 92, 2019 7^th International Symposium on Deformation Characteristics of Geomaterials (IS-Glasgow 2019)


Article Number		07011
Number of page(s)		6
Section		Behaviour of Unsaturated Geomaterials
DOI		https://doi.org/10.1051/e3sconf/20199207011
Published online		25 June 2019

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