Instead of fixating on formulae, Soil Mechanics: Concepts and Applications, Third Edition
focuses on the fundamentals. This book describes the mechanical behaviour of soils as it …

Rainfall is one of the most significant triggering factors for slope failures in many regions
around the world. Numerous research studies have been conducted to investigate infiltration …

According to the National Research Council (1989, 2005), sound geoengineering is key in
meeting seven critical societal needs. They are waste management and environmental …

Experimental studies on unsaturated soils are generally costly, time-consuming, and difficult
to conduct. Shear strength data from the research literature suggests that there is a …

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 …

The measurement of soil parameters, such as the permeability and shear strength functions,
used to describe unsaturate soil behaviour can be expensive, difficult, and often impractical …

The paper presents an elasto-plastic model for unsaturated soils that takes explicitly into
account the mechanisms with which suction affects mechanical behaviour as well as their …

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 …

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 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 …