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Laboratory Testing and Quality Control of Rockfill — German Practice

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Advances in Rockfill Structures

Part of the book series: NATO ASI Series ((NSSE,volume 200))

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When looking at the poster prepared for this NATO-ASI on “Rockfill Structures”, one might be tempted to assume that rockfills are granular masses of solid fragments of sound rock.

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Brauns, J., Kast, K. (1991). Laboratory Testing and Quality Control of Rockfill — German Practice. In: das Neves, E.M. (eds) Advances in Rockfill Structures. NATO ASI Series, vol 200. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-3206-0_8

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