Unsaturated Soils: Research and Applications: Volume 1

Front Matter....Pages 1-13
Front Matter....Pages 1-2
A Double Cell Triaxial System for Unsaturated Soils Testing....Pages 5-10
Performances of Two High Capacity Tensiometers....Pages 11-17
A Local Monitoring of Water Content in Unsaturated Soil Triaxial Testing....Pages 19-24
Effect of Intermediate Stress on Collapse Behaviour of a Compacted Clayey Silt....Pages 25-30
Unsaturated Soil Response under Plane Strain Conditions Using a Servo/Suction-Controlled Biaxial Apparatus....Pages 31-38
Behaviour of Compacted Clayey Silty Sand under Suction-Controlled Ring Shear Testing....Pages 39-46
Estimating the Retention Curve of a Compacted Soil through Different Testing and Interpretation Methods....Pages 47-54
Constructing Fast, Accurate Soil Water Characteristic Curves by Combining the Wind/Schindler and Vapor Pressure Techniques....Pages 55-62
Enhancement of a Commercial Pressure Plate Apparatus for Soil Water Retention Curves....Pages 63-70
Characterizing Liquid Phase Fabric of Unsaturated Specimens from X-Ray Computed Tomography Images....Pages 71-80
Water Retention Behaviour Explored by X-Ray CT Analysis....Pages 81-88
Detection of Fissures in Desiccated Soils Using Spectral Analysis of Rayleigh Waves....Pages 89-96
Field Scale Water Content Measurement by TDR Technique....Pages 97-105
Use of TDR Probes to Measure Water Content in Pumiceous Soils....Pages 107-112
Observations from Borehole Shear Testing in Unsaturated Soil....Pages 113-119
Front Matter....Pages 121-121
Microstructure Characteristics of Unsaturated Compacted Scaly Clay....Pages 123-130
Soil Fabric of Compacted and Natural Swelling Soils Studied by Mercury Intrusion Porosimetry....Pages 131-136
Porosity Changes due to Hydration of Compacted Bentonite....Pages 137-144
Effect of Initial Water Content and Dry Density on the Pore Structure and the Soil-Water Retention Curve of Compacted Clay....Pages 145-152
Water Retention Properties of a Compacted Clayey Silt Including Void Ratio Dependency and Microstructural Features....Pages 153-158
Front Matter....Pages 121-121
Effect of Density in the Water Retention Curve of a Compacted Silt-Bentonite Mixture....Pages 159-163
Effect of Vertical Stress on the Soil Water Characteristic Curve of Highly Expansive Soils....Pages 165-172
Role of the Soil Mineralogy on the Temperature Dependence of the Water Retention Curve....Pages 173-178
Water Retention Properties of Two Deep Belgian Clay Formations....Pages 179-184
Effect of Suction Changes on the Microstructure of Compacted Crushed Argillites under Constant-Volume Conditions....Pages 185-190
Water Retention Properties and Microstructure of Compacted Expanded Perlite....Pages 191-196
Water Retention Characteristics of Non-plastic Granular Materials....Pages 197-203
Experimental Investigation of Hydraulic Conductivity in Unsaturated Compressible Soils....Pages 205-212
Examination of Unsaturated Conductivity Curves Using Transparent Soil....Pages 213-218
Front Matter....Pages 219-219
SWRC Modelling Framework for Evaluating Volume Change Behavior of Expansive Soils....Pages 221-228
Wetting Characteristics of Compacted Bentonites at Large Applied Suctions....Pages 229-234
Measurement of Swelling Pressure for Bentonite under Relative Humidity Control....Pages 235-240
Swelling of Highly Compacted Bentonite-Sand Mixtures Used as Sealing Materials in Radioactive Waste Disposal....Pages 241-247
Soil-Water Characteristic Curves and Evolution of the Tensile and Unconfined Compression Strength of Drying Slurried Soils....Pages 249-256
Shear Strength of a Compacted Scaly Clay from Suction-Controlled Triaxial Tests....Pages 257-264
Yielding Behaviour of an Alluvial Compacted Soil in Saturated and Unsaturated Conditions....Pages 265-272
Effect of Compaction Water Content on the Drained and Undrained Behaviour of an Unsaturated Kaolin....Pages 273-278
Shear Strength and Volume Change of Unsaturated Collapsible Soil by CW Test....Pages 279-286
The Effect of Relative Humidity and Temperature on the Unconfined Compressive Strength of Rammed Earth....Pages 287-292
The Variation of Total Volume Change, Water Volume Change, Yielding Net Confining Stress and Shear Strength of Undisturbed Unsaturated Loess under Isotropic Compression....Pages 293-300
Front Matter....Pages 219-219
Collapse Potential and Permeability of Undisturbed and Remolded Loessial Soil Samples....Pages 301-308
Geotechnical Behaviour of Unsaturated Tropical Clay Soils of Dhaka, Bangladesh....Pages 309-316
Shrinkage Characterization of Some Italian Clay Soils....Pages 317-324
Classification of Shrinkage and Swelling Potential of a Subgrade Soil in Central Thailand....Pages 325-331
Experimental Characterization of Shrinkage Behaviour of Australian Expansive Soils....Pages 333-338
Nonisothermal Shear Strength of Compacted Silt under High Suction Magnitudes....Pages 339-346
Matric Suction and Deformation Behavior of Unbound Granular Base (UGB) Materials under Constant and Variable Cell Pressure....Pages 347-354
Wave Velocity Change and Small-Strain Stiffness in Unsaturated Soils: Experimental Investigation....Pages 355-362
Seismic Ground Response Analysis of Unsaturated Soil Deposits Using Suction Dependent Shear Modulus and Damping Ratio....Pages 363-370
Ageing Effects on the Stiffness Behaviour of a Microbiologically Treated and Compacted Soil....Pages 371-376
The Effect of Treatment with Fly Ash and Cement upon the Characteristic Curve of a Collapsing Soil....Pages 377-383
Influence of Kaolin Mixture on Unsaturated Shear Strength of Decomposed Granitic Silty Sand....Pages 385-390
Mechanical Behaviour of Unsaturated Lime-Treated Clays: Experiments and Modelling....Pages 391-396
Collapse upon Wetting of Lime Stabilised Pyroclastic Soils....Pages 397-404
Fabric Alteration of a Compacted Lime-Treated Expansive Soil upon Drying and Wetting....Pages 405-410
On the Resaturation of Swelling Claystone....Pages 411-417
Effect of Loading History on Time Dependent Deformation of Rockfill....Pages 419-424
Experimental Study of the Strength and Crushing of Unsaturated Spherical Particles....Pages 425-430
Back Matter....Pages 0--1