The purpose of this paper is to review the development and the state of the art in desiccation
cracking characterization methods and review the desiccation cracking behaviors of soils …

A state-of-the-art review has been conducted in this work on soil constitutive modeling,
which has emphasized on: soil type, ground-water conditions, loading conditions, structural …

Purpose Soil salinization is a common concern; the physical and mechanical properties of
soil play an important role in the process of salinization for the stability of land sites. This …

Bentonite-based materials have been considered in many countries as engineered
barrier/backfilling materials in deep geological disposal of high-level radioactive waste …

The soil water retention curve (SWRC) or soil–water characteristic curve (SWCC) is a
fundamental feature of unsaturated soil that simply shows the relationship between soil …

During the long-term operation of a deep geological repository, the buffer/backfill properties
of compacted bentonite could be affected by the chemistry of the infiltrated porewater. In this …

The pore structure characteristics of soil are closely related to soil engineering properties.
For saline soil distributed in seasonally frozen areas, existing studies have focused on the …

The volume change behaviour is usually expressed by different curves of e–p when
concentrated pore fluids are introduced to clays. Increase in effective stress from osmotic …

The assessment and predicting of volume change characteristic in compacted bentonite
during hydration upon high suction change are crucial considerations in the design and …

Clay liners are widely used as porous membrane barriers to control solute transport and to
prevent the leakage of leachate both in horizontal and vertical flow scenarios, such as the …