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 …

Unsaturated soil mechanics has rapidly become a part of geotechnical engineering practice
as a result of solutions that have emerged to a number of key problems (or challenges). The …

A series of tests were conducted in order to investigate the shear strength and deformation
behavior of methane hydrate-bearing sediments during dissociation using the thermal …

The soil-insect interaction has gathered significant attention in the recent years due to its
contribution to bio-cementation. Termites, as a group of cellulose-eating insects, alter …

This paper proposes a new water retention model for unsaturated soils, which takes into
account capillary condensation of adsorbed water. In this model, the degree of saturation of …

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 …

Previous studies of shear behaviour at different suctions and temperatures focused mainly
on recompacted soils. Limited attention has been paid to intact soil. In this paper, the shear …

Unsaturated soils over a wide suction range are widespread in nature. The shear strength of
unsaturated soils is a fundamental property in various geotechnical designs. In this paper, a …

The degree of saturation (S) of soil can be separated into two components: the degree of
capillary saturation (S′) that is based on the capillary water and the degree of adsorptive …

The determination of the shear strength of unsaturated soils is generally more complicated,
time consuming and expensive compared to the determination of the shear strength of …