Browsing Civil Structural & Environ Eng (Theses and Dissertations) by Author "Osorio-Salas, Juan Pablo"

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    • Vacuum consolidation field test on a pseudo-fibrous peat 

      Osorio-Salas, Juan Pablo (Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering, 2012)
      Several different ground improvement methods have been used to improve soft highly compressible organic soils such as peat. Vacuum consolidation is a ground improvement technique developed in the 1950’s, in which the ...