The paper presents a soil water retention model that takes into account the effects of void
ratio and hydraulic hysteresis on the variation of degree of saturation. Based on a modified …

Alternate precipitation and evaporation often cause desiccation cracks in clayey soils, which
necessarily change the soil water retention capacity. This work aimed to examine the …

Surface water infiltration is a primary factor responsible for engineering challenges and
geological disasters on the Loess Plateau of China (LPC). Due to the extensive groundwater …

Purpose The microstructure of a given soil is neither unique nor fixed as it evolves during
deformation of the soil. Quantitative characterization of the microstructural evolution is …

This paper proposed a pore-scale model to simulate the effect of initial soil density on the
bimodal soil water characteristic curve (SWCC) of compacted soils. The pore-scale model is …

This paper presents a constitutive model that predicts the water retention behaviour of
compacted clays with evolving bimodal pore size distributions. In line with previous …

This paper combines a series of approaches for predicting the soil-water characteristic curve
(SWCC) and the variation of the resilient modulus (MR) of compacted fine-grained subgrade …

A fractal-based approach for volume change dependency of the water retention curve in a
deformable unsaturated soil is presented. Conservation laws of solid mass and solid surface …

Accurately predicting the thermal conductivity of unsaturated soils is crucial for assessing
and simulating the long-term environmental impact of subterranean engineering structures …

A soil water characteristic curve (SWCC) model named as discrete-continuous multimodal
van Genuchten model with a convenient parameter calibration method is developed to …