Experimental Unsaturated Soil Mechanics

Part I. Microstructure and Fabric

1. Influence of Relative Density and Clay Fraction on Soils Collapse
Khelifa Abbeche, Farid Hammoud, Tahar Ayadat

2. Microstructure Features in the Behaviour of Engineered Barriers for Nuclear Waste Disposal
Pierre Delage

3. Microstructure of Gypsiferous Crust and Its Importance to Unsaturated Soil Behaviour
Ghazi Mokdad, Omran Alshihabi, Leo Stroosnijder

4. Fabric Changes in Compacted London Clay Due to Variations in Applied Stress and Suction
Rafael Monroy, Lidija Zdravkovic, Andrew Ridley

5. Microstructure of a Lime Stabilised Compacted Silt
Giacomo Russo, Sebastiana Dal Vecchio, Giuseppe Mascolo

Part II. Measuring Suction

6. Errors in Total Suction Measurements
Setianto Samingan Agus, Tom Schanz

7. Application of a Dew Point Method to Obtain the Soil Water Characteristic
Gaylon S. Campbell, David M. Smith, Brody L. Teare

8. A Comparative Study of Soil Suction Measurement Using Two Different High-Range Psychrometers
Rafaela Cardoso, Enrique Romero, Analice Lima, Alessio Ferrari

9. Determination of the Soil Water Retention Curve with Tensiometers
S’ergio Lourenço, Domenico Gallipoli, David Toll, Fred Evans, Gabriela Medero

10. Tensiometer Development for High Suction Analysis in Laboratory Lysimeters
Cl’audio Fernando Mahler, Abdoul Aziz Diene

Part III. Strength and Dilatancy

11. Dilatancy of Coarse Granular Aggregates
Eduardo E. Alonso, Enrique F. Ortega Iturralde, Enrique E. Romero

12. A Laboratory Investigation into the Effect of Water Content on the CBR of a Subgrade soil
Samuel Innocent Kofi Ampadu

13. Shear Strength Affected by Suction Tension in Unsaturated Fine Grained Soils?
Carola Bönsch, Christof Lempp

14. Shear Strength Behaviour of Unsaturated Silty Soil
Ali R. Estabragh, Akbar A. Javadi

15. Experimental Investigation on the Time Dependent Behaviour of a Multiphase Chalk
Grégoire Priol, Vincenzo De Gennaro, Pierre Delage, Thibaut Servant

16. Testing Unsaturated Soil for Plane Strain Conditions: A New Double Wall Biaxial Device
Tom Schanz, Jamal Alabdullah

17. Influence of State Variables on the Shear Behaviour of an Unsaturated Clay
Viktoria Schwarz, Andreas Becker, Christos Vrettos

18. Effect of Capillary and Cemented Bonds on the Strength of Unsaturated Sands
Fabien Soulié, Moulay Saïd El Youssoufi, Jean-Yves Delenne, Christian Saix

19. Determining the Shear Strength of Unsaturated Silt
Shulin Sun, Huifang Xu

20. Factors Affecting Tensile Strength Measurement and Modified Tensile Strength Measuring Apparatus for Soil
Surendra Bahadur Tamrakar, Toshiyuki Mitachi, Yasuo Toyosawa

21. The Tensile Strength of Compacted Clays as Affected by Suction and Soil Structure
Rainer M. Zeh, Karl Josef Witt

Part IV. Temperature Effects

22. Modified Isochoric Cell for Temperature Controlled Swelling Pressure Tests
Yulian Firmana Arifin, Tom Schanz

23. Some Aspects of the Effect of the Temperature on the Behaviour of Unsaturated Sandy Clay
Moulay Smaine Ghembaza, Said Taïbi, Jean-Marie Fleureau

24. Influence of Temperature on the Water Retention Curve of Soils. Modelling and Experiments
Simon Salager, Moulay Saïd El Youssoufi, Christian Saix

25. Thermo-Hydro-Mechanical Behaviour of Compacted Bentonite
Abbass Tavallali, Anh-Minh Tang, Yu-Jun Cui

26. Retention Curves of Two Bentonites at High Temperature
María Victoria Villar, Roberto Gòmez-Espina

Part V. Volumetric Behaviour – Expansive Materials

27. Experimental Study on Shrinkage Behaviour and Prediction of Shrinkage Magnitudes of Residual Soils
Sarita Dhawan, Anil Kumar Mishra, Sudhakar M. Rao

28. Assessment of Swelling Deformation of Unsaturated Kaolinite Clay
Markus Dobrowolsky, Christos Vrettos

29. Suction and Collapse of Lumpy Spoilheaps in Northwestern Bohemia
Vladislava Herbstová, Jan Bohá?, Ivo Herle

30. Oedometer Creep Tests of a Partially Saturated Kaolinite Clay
Piotr Kierzkowski

31. Analysis of the Expansive Clay Hydration under Low Hydraulic Gradient
Marcelo S’anchez, Mar’ia Victoria Villar, Antonio Lloret, Antonio Gens

32. Moisture Effects on Argillaceous Rocks
Chun-Liang Zhang, Tilmann Rothfuchs

Part VI. Retention Behaviour

33. Results from Suction Controlled Laboratory Tests on Unsaturated Bentonite – Verification of a Model
Ann Dueck

34. Variation of Degree of Saturation in Unsaturated Silty Soil
Ali R. Estabragh, Akbar A. Javadi

35. Mechanical Behaviour of Compacted Scaly Clay During Cyclic Controlled-Suction Testing
Camillo Airò Farulla, Alessio Ferrari, Enrique Romero

36. Prediction of Soil–Water Characteristic Curve Based on Soil Index Properties
Navid Ganjian, Yadollah Pashang Pisheh, Seyed Majdeddin Mir Mohammad Hosseini

37. Water Balance and Effectiveness of Mineral Landfill Covers – Results of Large Lysimeter Test-Fields
Wolf Ulrich Henken-Mellies

38. A Retention Curve Prediction for Unsaturated Clay Soils
Mehrez Jamei, H. Guiras, N. Mokni

39. Unsaturated-Zone Leaching and Saturated-Zone Mixing Model in Heterogeneous Layers
Samuel S. Lee

40. Prediction of SWCC for Coarse Soils Considering Pore Size Changes
Xu Li, Limin Zhang

41. The Influence of the Pore Fluid on Desiccation of a Deformable Porous Material
Hervé Péron, Liangbo Hu, Tomasz Hueckel, Lyesse Laloui

42. Determination of the Soil Water Retention Curve and the Unsaturated Hydraulic Conductivity from the Particle Size Distribution
Alexander Scheuermann, Andreas Bieberstein

Part VII. Field Applications

43. Earthquake-Induced Mudflow Mechanism from a Viewpoint of Unsaturated Soil Dynamics
Motoki Kazama, Toshiyasu Unno

44. Plate-Load Tests on an Unsaturated Lean Clay
Juan Carlos Rojas, Luis Mauricio Salinas, Claudia Sejas

45. Selfsealing Barriers of Clay/Mineral Mixtures. The SB Project at the Mont Terri Rock Laboratory
Tilmann Rothfuchs, Rüdiger Miehe, Norbert Jockwer, Chun-Liang Zhang

46. Preferential Water Movement in Homogeneous Soils
Alexander Scheuermann, Andreas Bieberstein

47. Compaction Properties of Agricultural Soils
Anh-Minh Tang, Yu-Jun Cui, Javad Eslami, Pauline D’efossez-Berthoud

48. Bearing Capacity of Model Footings in Unsaturated Soils
Sai K. Vanapalli, Fathi M.O. Mohamed

49. Influence of Soil Suction on Trench Stability
Valerie Whenham, Monika Vos, Christian Legrand, Robert Charlier, Jan Maertens, Jean-Claude Verbrugge

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