ABSTRACT
Unsaturated Soils: Research and Applications contains 247 papers presented at 6th International Conference on Unsaturated Soils (UNSAT2014, Sydney, Australia, 2-4 July 2014). The two volumes provide an overview of recent experimental and theoretical advances in a wide variety of topics related to unsaturated soil mechanics:- Unsaturated Soil Behavi
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part |2 pages
Plenary lectures
chapter |12 pages
Plenary lectures Possible frost heave mechanisms in an unsaturated high-speed railway formation
Daichao Sheng Guotang Zhao
part |2 pages
Semi plenary lectures
chapter |10 pages
Semi plenary lectures Some issues in hydro-mechanical behaviour of unsaturated soils and its modelling
De’an Sun, You Gao & Junran Zhang
chapter |10 pages
Use of the yield pressure to interpret pressuremeter results in unsaturated soil
Gerald A. Miller
chapter |6 pages
Response of intermediate unsaturated soils under suction-controlled plane strain conditions: A preliminary investigation
José A. Cruz & Laureano R. Hoyos Arcesio Lizcano
part |2 pages
Fundamentals
chapter |8 pages
Physical effects of liquid-vapor water transition in unsaturated soils
B. Pelizzari, J. Monnet, B. Loret & D. Mahmutovic O. Plé L. Boutonnier
chapter |6 pages
Effects of wetting on mechanical behavior and particle crushing of a mudstone particle mixture
Jun-Jie Wang, Ming-Wei Liu, Hui-Ping Zhang & Duo-Yin Wang
chapter |8 pages
Principle of effective stress for unsaturated soils
Longtan Shao, Guofeng Zheng, Xiaoxia Guo & Gang Liu
chapter |6 pages
Characterization of time-dependent contact angles for oleic acid mixed sands with different particle size fractions
Y.N.S. Wijewardana K. Kawamoto & T. Komatsu
chapter |6 pages
Characterization of the effect of disturbance on the hydro-mechanical behavior of a highly collapsible loessial soil
S. Mohsen Haeri, Ali Khosravi, Shahin Ghaizadeh & Amir Akbari Garakani Christopher L. Meehan
part |2 pages
Constitutive modelling
chapter |8 pages
An improved modeling of hydro-mechanical behavior of unsaturated compacted soils
C. Yang C.S. Yang
chapter |8 pages
Modelling wetting collapse behaviour in unsaturated granite residual soil
M.J. Md. Noor & I.B. Mohamed Jais
chapter |6 pages
Influence of stress variables on constitutive modeling for unsaturated soils
J.S. Li, J.F. Yang, G.L. Ye & A.M. Liu
chapter |8 pages
Prediction of stress strain response by rotational multiple yield surface framework for unsaturated granite residual soil
M.J. Md. Noor & I.B. Mohamed Jais
chapter |8 pages
Multi-scale analysis of the swelling and shrinkage of a lime-treated expansive clayey soil
O. Cuisinier & F. Masrouri G. Stoltz
part |2 pages
Numerical modelling
chapter |8 pages
Modelling benchmark of a laboratory test on hydro-mechanical behavior of bentonite
A. Millard J.D. Barnichon & N. Mokni
chapter |6 pages
Modeling the thermo-mechanical triaxial shearing behavior of unsaturated soils using EPR
A. Ahangar-Asr A.A. Javadi
chapter |8 pages
Modeling rainfall infiltration through coarse and fine-grained unsaturated geomaterials
G. Rotisciani & A. Desideri G. Sciarra
chapter |8 pages
Numerical analysis of unsaturated excavation by using suction stress
Jian Zhou Bin Liu
chapter |8 pages
Modelling soil water redistribution in unsaturated zone during evaporation process
Jidong Teng, Noriyuki Yasufuku, Ryohei Ishikura & Zhenbo Jiang
chapter |8 pages
Numerical simulation of mechanical behavior of a triaxial silty soil under undrained and various controlled air boundary conditions
Takahiro Yoshikawa & Toshihiro Noda
