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Unsaturated Soils: Experimental Studies

Unsaturated Soils: Experimental Studies


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Hydraulic Behaviour.- Laboratory Experiments and Simulations on the Significance of Non-Equilibrium Effect in the Capillary Pressure-Saturation Relationship.- Determination of hydro-mechanical Properties of Sand.- Column test apparatus for the inverse estimation of soil hydraulic parameters under defined stress condition.- Water permeability of unsaturated compacted kaolin.- Moisture retention curve in landfilled waste.- The pF-curve of fine-grained soils at high pore water suction.- Structural Characterization - Measurement of Suction.- Influence of microstructure on geotechnical properties of clays.- Suction induced by static compaction.- Suction of compacted residual soils.- Creation of artificial loess soils.- Analysis of the mechanical response of an artificial collapsible soil.- Fabric Evolution of an Unsaturated Compacted Soil during Hydromechanical Loading.- Measurement of osmotic suction using the squeezing technique.- The use of different suction measurement techniques to determine water retention curves.- Measurement of Suction of Thick Textured Soil using Filter Paper Method and Equivalent Tensiometer - EQT.- Laboratory measurement of matric suction in pyroclastic soil using vacuum and high-suction tensiometers.- Expansive Soils.- Volume Change Behaviour of Fine Grained Soils.- Volume change behaviour of cohesive soils.- Swelling Pressures and Wetting-Drying Curves of a Highly Compacted Bentonite-Sand Mixture.- Results and interpretation of bentonite resaturation experiments with liquid water and water vapour.- Mechanical Behaviour.- Shear strength of unsaturated bentonite buffer material.- Evaluation of Yielding in Unsaturated Clays Using an Automated Triaxial Apparatus with Controlled Suction.- A triaxial device for unsaturated sand - New Developments.- Undrained Isotropic Compression of Soil.- Hydro-mechanical behaviour of a clayey silt under isotropic compression.- The concept of "apparent" Compression Index.- Behaviour of unsaturated cohesive soils subjected to cyclic loads.- Remarks on consolidation in unsaturated soils from experimental results.- Prediction and modeling of tensile stresses and shrinkage.- Tensile Strength of Compacted Clays.- Fine Fissuring of Clay Fill Materials for Flood Defence Embankments.- Laboratory investigation of the virgin drying of the Corinth Marl.- Applications.- From experimental evidence towards the assessment of weather-related railway embankment hazards.- Large scale hill creep in cohesive sediments: A field and model study.- The effect of soil suction in stability of partially submerged slopes.- Effects of unsaturation on the stability of a moraine slope.- A large physical Mock-Up model for investigating engineered barriers.- Experimental testing and modelling of a Design for HLW Disposal through a Large Scale Mock-Up.


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  • ISBN-13: 9783642425332
  • Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Height: 234 mm
  • No of Pages: 533
  • Series Title: Springer Proceedings in Physics
  • Sub Title: Proceedings of the International Conference from Experimental Evidence Towards Numerical Modeling of Unsaturated Soils, Weimar, Germany, September 1
  • Width: 156 mm
  • ISBN-10: 364242533X
  • Publisher Date: 30 Nov 2014
  • Edition: 2005 ed.
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Spine Width: 28 mm
  • Weight: 811 gr


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