ABSTRACT
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.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter |12 pages
Investigating infiltration into compacted unsaturated heterogeneous soils
J. Shevelan & C. Hird
chapter |14 pages
Collapse tests on isotropic and anisotropic compacted soils
M. Barrera, E. Romero, A. Lloret & A.Gens
chapter |16 pages
Soil behaviour in the small and the large strain range under controlled suction conditions
R.Vassallo & C. Mancuso
chapter |12 pages
Inclusion of hydraulic hysteresis in a new elasto-plastic framework for unsaturated soils
M. S. R. Buisson & S. J.Wheeler
chapter |16 pages
Interpretation of shear response upon wetting of natural unsaturated pyroclastic soils
M. V. Nicotera