The First James K. Mitchell Lecture In situ soil testing: from mechanics to interpretationFootnote†

†This paper was first published by Millpress Science Publishers in Geotechnical and Geophysical Site Characterization (ISBN 90 5966 010 2), edited by A. Viana da Fonseca and P.W. Mayne (2004).

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