Experimental Unsaturated Soil Mechanics

Abstract

Microstructure and Fabric.- Influence of Relative Density and Clay Fraction on Soils Collapse.- Microstructure Features in the Behaviour of Engineered Barriers for Nuclear Waste Disposal.- Microstructure of Gypsiferous Crust and Its Importance to Unsaturated Soil Behaviour.- Fabric Changes in Compacted London Clay Due to Variations in Applied Stress and Suction.- Microstructure of a Lime Stabilised Compacted Silt.- Measuring Suction.- Errors in Total Suction Measurements.- Application of a Dew Point Method to Obtain the Soil Water Characteristic.- A Comparative Study of Soil Suction Measurement Using Two Different High-Range Psychrometers.- Determination of the Soil Water Retention Curve with Tensiometers.- Tensiometer Development for High Suction Analysis in Laboratory Lysimeters.- Strength and Dilatancy.- Dilatancy of Coarse Granular Aggregates.- A Laboratory Investigation into the Effect of Water Content on the CBR of a Subgrade soil.- Shear Strength Affected by Suction Tension in Unsaturated Fine Grained Soils?.- Shear Strength Behaviour of Unsaturated Silty Soil.- Experimental Investigation on the Time Dependent Behaviour of a Multiphase Chalk.- Testing Unsaturated Soil for Plane Strain Conditions: A New Double Wall Biaxial Device.- Influence of State Variables on the Shear Behaviour of an Unsaturated Clay.- Effect of Capillary and Cemented Bonds on the Strength of Unsaturated Sands.- Determining the Shear Strength of Unsaturated Silt.- Factors Affecting Tensile Strength Measurement and Modified Tensile Strength Measuring Apparatus for Soil.- The Tensile Strength of Compacted Clays as Affected by Suction and Soil Structure.- Temperature Effects.- Modified Isochoric Cell for Temperature Controlled Swelling Pressure Tests.- Some Aspects of the Effect of the Temperature on the Behaviour of Unsaturated Sandy Clay.- Influence of Temperature on the Water Retention Curve of Soils. Modelling and Experiments.- Thermo-Hydro-Mechanical Behaviour of Compacted Bentonite.- Retention Curves of Two Bentonites at High Temperature.- Volumetric Behaviour - Expansive Materials.- Experimental Study on Shrinkage Behaviour and Prediction of Shrinkage Magnitudes of Residual Soils.- Assessment of Swelling Deformation of Unsaturated Kaolinite Clay.- Suction and Collapse of Lumpy Spoilheaps in Northwestern Bohemia.- Oedometer Creep Tests of a Partially Saturated Kaolinite Clay.- Analysis of the Expansive Clay Hydration under Low Hydraulic Gradient.- Moisture Effects on Argillaceous Rocks.- Retention Behaviour.- Results from Suction Controlled Laboratory Tests on Unsaturated Bentonite - Verification of a Model.- Variation of Degree of Saturation in Unsaturated Silty Soil.- Mechanical Behaviour of Compacted Scaly Clay During Cyclic Controlled-Suction Testing.- Prediction of Soil-Water Characteristic Curve Based on Soil Index Properties.- Water Balance and Effectiveness of Mineral Landfill Covers - Results of Large Lysimeter Test-Fields.- A Retention Curve Prediction for Unsaturated Clay Soils.- Unsaturated-Zone Leaching and Saturated-Zone Mixing Model in Heterogeneous Layers.- Prediction of SWCC for Coarse Soils Considering Pore Size Changes.- The Influence of the Pore Fluid on Desiccation of a Deformable Porous Material.- Determination of the Soil Water Retention Curve and the Unsaturated Hydraulic Conductivity from the Particle Size Distribution.- Field Applications.- Earthquake-Induced Mudflow Mechanism from a Viewpoint of Unsaturated Soil Dynamics.- Plate-Load Tests on an Unsaturated Lean Clay.- Selfsealing Barriers of Clay/Mineral Mixtures. The SB Project at the Mont Terri Rock Laboratory.- Preferential Water Movement in Homogeneous Soils.- Compaction Properties of Agricultural Soils.- Bearing Capacity of Model Footings in Unsaturated Soils.- Influence of Soil Suction on Trench Stability.