Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Assessment of Recycled Construction and Demolition Waste for Road Embankments

Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Assessment of Recycled Construction and Demolition Waste for Road Embankments

Procedia Engineering Volume 143, 2016, Pages 51–58 Advances in Transportation Geotechnics 3 . The 3rd International Conference on Transportation Geote...

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