1st Edition

Experimental Evidence and Theoretical Approaches in Unsaturated Soils

Edited By A. Tarantino, C. Mancuso Copyright 2000

    This volume presents the work of postgraduate and postdoctoral researchers on unsaturated soil mechanincs. Topics covered include: innovative experimental techniques; new experimental data on compacted, collapsible and swelling soils; and advances in constitutive modelling.

    Preface

    Acknowledgements

    Experimental Evidence

    1. Experimental investigations on the stress variables governing unsaturated soil behaviour at medium to high degrees of saturation

    2. Investigating infiltration into compacted unsaturated heterogeneous soils

    3. Collapse tests on isotropic and anisotropic compacted soils

    4. Retention curves and 1-D behaviour of a compacted tectonised unsaturated clay

    5. Volume change behaviour of a dense compacted swelling clay under stress and suction changes

    6. Soil behaviour in the small and the large strain range under controlled suction conditions

    7. Retention curves of deformable clays

    Theoretical Approaches

    8. Inclusion of hydraulic hysteresis in a new elasto-plastic framework for unsaturated soils

    9. An elastoplastic hydro-mechanical model for unsaturated soils

    10. Remarks on the constitutive modelling of unsaturated soils

    11. Modelling the behaviour of unsaturated silt

    12. Interpretation of shear response upon wetting of natural unsaturated pyroclastic soils

    Miscellaneous

    List of participants

    Author index, including addresses

    Biography

    A. Tarantino, C. Mancuso