Unsaturated Soils: Research & ApplicationsUnsaturated Soils: Research and Applications contains 247 papers presented at 6th International Conference on Unsaturated Soils (UNSAT2014, Sydney, Australia, 2-4 July 2014). The two volumes provide an overview of recent experimental and theoretical advances in a wide variety of topics related to unsaturated soil mechanics: - Unsaturated Soil Behavior Unsaturated Soils: Research and Applications presents a wealth of information, and is of interest to researchers and practising engineers in soil mechanics and geotechnical engineering. These proceedings are dedicated to Professor Geoffrey E. Blight (1934-2013), who passed in November 2013. |
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Multi-scale study of desiccation shrinkage in granular soils H. Bista, L.B. Hu, B. Mielniczuk, M.S. El Youssoufi, L. Laloui & T. Hueckel Relationship between swelling pressures determined by constant volume and consolidation-swell ...
However, the objective of creating a reasonably high swelling pressure and a low permeability may be maintained if the porosity of pellets is sufficiently low. A highly compacted bentonite material may be achieved if most of the water ...
the increased void ratio (up to 0.8–1.10) results in a reduced swelling pressure. This is shown also in Figure 2, where some swelling pressure tests on pellet mixtures compacted at different overall densities are compared with the ...
The vapor-controlled wetting results in a slow development of swelling from the start of the test. However, when a final (liquid) wetting is applied a sudden collapse is measured followed by a swelling trend at the end of the test.
Swelling was recorded for times in excess of 30 s. The figure shows also the calculated evolution of macro and micro suction. sM reduces fast, whereas micro suction develops slowly. This is a consequence of the low permeability measured ...