Soft soils under the Swiss railway network

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Issue		E3S Web Conf. Volume 730, 2026 International Conference on Advances and Innovations in Soft Soil Engineering (Soft Soils 2026)


Article Number		03010
Number of page(s)		8
Section		Constitutive, Numerical, and Machine Learning Models
DOI		https://doi.org/10.1051/e3sconf/202673003010
Published online		03 August 2026

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