A review of advances in triaxial tests: Instruments, test techniques and prospects

J Bai, Y Diao, C Jia, C Liu, M Zhang… - KSCE Journal of Civil …, 2022‏ - Springer
Triaxial test is approved to be the most suitable method for studying the mechanical
properties of rocks and soils in lab. Through conventional triaxial tests, parameters like the …

Unsaturated soil mechanics in engineering practice

DG Fredlund - Journal of geotechnical and geoenvironmental …, 2006‏ - ascelibrary.org
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 …

[ספר][B] Triaxial testing of soils

PV Lade - 2016‏ - books.google.com
Triaxial Testing of Soils explains how to carry out triaxial tests to demonstrate the effects of
soil behaviour on engineering designs. An authoritative and comprehensive manual, it …

[ספר][B] Advanced unsaturated soil mechanics and engineering

CWW Ng, B Menzies - 2014‏ - taylorfrancis.com
Analytical and comprehensive, this state-of-the-art book, examines the mechanics and
engineering of unsaturated soils, as well as explaining the laboratory and field testing and …

A Review of Gassy Sediments: Mechanical Property, Disaster Simulation and In-Situ Test

T Liu, X Yang, Y Zhang - Frontiers in Earth Science, 2022‏ - frontiersin.org
Gassy sediments are an important cause of engineering disasters such as large-area
coastal submarine landslides, excessive tilting of marine foundations, and excessive …

Cyclic loading of railway ballast under triaxial conditions and in a railway test facility

B Aursudkij, GR McDowell, AC Collop - Granular Matter, 2009‏ - Springer
A recently developed large-scale triaxial test apparatus for railway ballast testing comprises
a double-cell arrangement for measuring volume change by differential pressure. Monotonic …

Microstructural changes of an undisturbed, reconstituted and compacted high plasticity clay subjected to wetting and drying

GJ Burton, JA Pineda, D Sheng, D Airey - Engineering Geology, 2015‏ - Elsevier
The behaviour of soil, and in particular compacted clay fill, can have significant implications
on the safe and reliable operation of man-made infrastructure. The mechanical behaviour of …

State of the Art Report. Advances in Unsaturated Soil Mechanics: Constitutive modelling, experimental investigation, and field instrumentation

N Khalili, EE Romero Morales… - … Conference on Soil …, 2022‏ - upcommons.upc.edu
This state-of-the-art covers advances in the constitutive modelling, experimental
investigation and field measurement of suction for unsaturated soils. It consists of three …

A photogrammetry-based method to measure total and local volume changes of unsaturated soils during triaxial testing

X Zhang, L Li, G Chen, R Lytton - Acta Geotechnica, 2015‏ - Springer
Triaxial tests have been widely used to evaluate soil behaviors. In the past few decades,
several methods have been developed to measure the volume changes of unsaturated soil …

[PDF][PDF] A laboratory study of railway ballast behaviour under traffic loading and tam** maintenance

B Aursudkij - 2007‏ - core.ac.uk
Since it is difficult to conduct railway ballast testing in-situ, it is important to simulate the
conditions experienced in the real track environment and study their influences on ballast in …