| Description |
1 online resource : text file, PDF |
| Contents |
Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Preface; Acknowledgements; Experimental evidence; Experimental investigations on the stress variables governing unsaturated soil behaviour at medium to high degrees of saturation; Investigating infiltration into compacted unsaturated heterogeneous soils; Collapse tests on isotropic and anisotropic compacted soils; Retention curves and 1-D behaviour of a compacted tectonised unsaturated clay; Volume change behaviour of a dense compacted swelling clay under stress and suction changes |
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Soil behaviour in the small and the large strain range under controlled suction conditionsRetention curves of deformable clays; Theoretical approaches; Inclusion of hydraulic hysteresis in a new elasto-plastic framework for unsaturated soils; An elastoplastic hydro-mechanical model for unsaturated soils; Remarks on the constitutive modelling of unsaturated soils; Modelling the behaviour of unsaturated silt; Interpretation of shear response upon wetting of natural unsaturated pyroclastic; Miscellaneous; Author addresses; List of participants; Author index |
| Summary |
"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."--Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Soil science.
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Earth sciences.
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Soil mechanics.
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soil science.
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earth sciences.
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soil mechanics.
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Earth sciences
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Soil mechanics
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Soil science
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Tarantino, A., editor
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Mancuso, C., editor
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| ISBN |
9781482283761 |
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148228376X |
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