TY  - JOUR 
AU  - Suárez Barrios, María Mercedes
AU  - García Romero, Emilia
AU  - Baz, Ascensión
AU  - Pérez, Rafael
PY  - 2021
SN  - 0013-7952
UR  - http://hdl.handle.net/10366/169194
AB  - [EN]The third set of locks of the Panama Canal is one the most impressive civil infrastructures in the world. Its construction, however, was delayed by two years incurring cost overruns in billions that were mainly related to the use of the local...
LA  - eng
PB  - Elsevier
KW  - Basalt
KW  - Aggregates
KW  - Rapid degradation
KW  - Texture
KW  - Swelling clays
KW  - Acceleration aging
TI  - Smectites: The key to the cost overruns in the construction of the third set of locks of the Panama Canal
DO  - 10.1016/j.enggeo.2021.106036
T2  - Engineering Geology
VL  - 284
M2  - 106036
ER  -