Loess soil deposits are widely distributed in arid and semi-arid regions and constitute about
10% of land area of the world. These soils typically have a loose honeycomb-type meta …

An unsaturated soil is a state of the soil. All soils can be partially saturated with water.
Therefore, constitutive models for soils should ideally represent the soil behaviour over …

Experimental data from different testing methodologies on different compacted clayey soils,
with dominant bimodal pore size distribution, are presented and analysed, to provide a …

The range of problems that geotechnical engineers must face is increasing in complexity
and scope. Often, complexity arises from the interaction between the soil and the …

Although a number of constitutive models for unsaturated soils exist in the literature, some
fundamental questions have not been fully answered. There are questions related to (i) the …

Unsaturated soil behaviour, such as volume change, shear strength and yield stress, is
usually interpreted and modelled in terms of stress and suction. This approach is consistent …

A fully coupled constitutive model is presented for describing the flow and deformation
behaviour of unsaturated soils. The elastic–plastic behaviour due to loading and unloading …

Many shallow foundations are constructed within the soil layer above the groundwater table,
where the soil remains unsaturated, and the failure of shallow foundation is mostly related to …

An unsaturated soil is a three-phase material that is ubiquitous on the earth's surface. The
fully saturated and completely dry states are just two limiting conditions of an unsaturated …

Rainfall-induced landslides pose a significant threat to the public safety in many parts of the
world especially in tropical or subtropical mountainous areas. The research field of …