ABSTRACT
Porous materials can involve full saturation when all the pores in their solid particle matrix are filled with a fluid (or water). When the pores are only partially filled with the fluid, air or gas exists in the pore space not occupied by the fluid. Testing and modelling of the behavior of saturated porous materials have advanced more than those for the partially saturated or unsaturated materials. However, there has been a recent surge in research for the latter due to their importance in such areas as geoenvironmental engineering, mass transport, and other engineering systems. In the following, we consider the DSC model for both.
