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Unusual Soil Behaviour and its Challenge to Constitutive Modelling

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  1. Director of the Institute of Geotechnical Engineering, University of Natural Resources and Applied Life Sciences Vienna, Feistmantelstr. 4, 1180, Vienna, Austria

    Wei Wu

  2. School of Civil Engineering, University of Nottingham, NG7 2RD, Nottingham, UK

    Hai-Sui Yu

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Chu, J. (2006). Unusual Soil Behaviour and its Challenge to Constitutive Modelling. In: Wu, W., Yu, HS. (eds) Modern Trends in Geomechanics. Springer Proceedings in Physics, vol 106. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-35724-7_23

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