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Soil Improvement with Jet-Grout Columns: A Case

Study from the 1999 Kocaeli Earthquake
H. Turan Durgunoglu
Bogazici University, Istanbul, Turkey

Mauro Chinchelli
Layne GeoContruction, Boston, Massachusetts

Selim Ikiz
Zetas Earth Technology Corp., Istanbul, Turkey

Canan Emrem
Zetas Earth Technology Corp., Istanbul, Turkey

Thomas Hurley
Layne GeoContruction, Boston, Massachusetts

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Grout Columns: A Case Study from the 1999 Kocaeli Earthquake" (April 13, 2004). International Conference on Case Histories in
Geotechnical Engineering. Paper 26.
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