Effects of freezing-thawing and cyclic loading on pore size distribution of silty clay by mercury intrusion porosimetry

ZL Zhang, ZD Cui - Cold Regions Science and Technology, 2018 - Elsevier
With the development of urban rail transposition, the long-term deformation of soft clay under
the subway vibration loading has drawn wide attention by researchers and engineers …

Coupled Hydromechanical Behavior of Compacted Loess during Isotropic Compression

Z Zhang, Y Fu, A Zhou, X Hou, M Zhang… - International Journal of …, 2023 - ascelibrary.org
Compacted loess is a special collapsible unsaturated soil and is sensitive to hydraulic
conditions. Understanding and modeling the coupled hydromechanical behavior of …

Investigation of the cumulative influence of infiltration on the slope stability with a thick unsaturated zone

X Hou, T Li, S Qi, S Guo, P Li, Y Xi, X Xing - Bulletin of Engineering …, 2021 - Springer
Rainfall-induced shallow landslides (ie, the depth of the failure surface is less than 5.0 m)
have been widely investigated in the literature. However, the relationship between water …

A modification to the van Genuchten model for improved prediction of relative hydraulic conductivity of unsaturated soils

X Kuang, JJ Jiao, J Shan, Z Yang - European Journal of Soil …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Modelling of flow and transport in unsaturated soils requires information on two fundamental
hydraulic properties: the soil water retention curve and relative hydraulic conductivity. A …

Coupling elasto-plastic behaviour of unsaturated soils with piecewise linear large-strain consolidation

S Qi, P Simms, F Daliri, S Vanapalli - Géotechnique, 2020 - icevirtuallibrary.com
Slurried soils or tailings are often deposited in layers that undergo complex stress paths in
terms of desiccation and loading, as a given layer may undergo variable degrees of …

A simple water retention model of dual-porosity soils based on self-similarity of bimodal pore size distribution

H Chen, SJ Feng - Computers and Geotechnics, 2023 - Elsevier
The bimodal characteristic of water retention curves of dual-porosity soils has been fully
recognized, however, the excessive number of fitted parameters in the existing models limits …

A new water retention model that considers pore non-uniformity and evolution of pore size distribution

Q Cheng, CWW Ng, C Zhou, CS Tang - Bulletin of Engineering Geology …, 2019 - Springer
Pore size distribution (PSD), which is usually measured using mercury intrusion porosimetry
(MIP) tests, is often used to predict the water retention curve (WRC) of unsaturated soil …

Study on SWCC and PSD evolution of compacted loess before and after drying-wetting cycles

H Wang, W Ni, K Yuan, Y Nie, L Li - Bulletin of Engineering Geology and …, 2023 - Springer
Landslides and ground subsidence resulting from changes in soil-water characteristics
during drying and wetting cycles present a severe hazard to the environment and human life …

Evolution of isochoric water retention curve with void ratio

A Pasha, A Khoshghalb, N Khalili - Computers and Geotechnics, 2020 - Elsevier
Experimental water retention curve (WRC) obtained under constant volume (isochoric)
conditions is crucial in the coupled hydro-mechanical formulation of unsaturated soils and …

[HTML][HTML] Determining soil-water characteristic curves from mercury intrusion porosimeter test data using fractal theory

G Tao, Y Chen, H Xiao, Q Chen, J Wan - Energies, 2019 - mdpi.com
Accurate determination of soil-water characteristic curve (SWCC) is of immense importance
for understanding the mechanical behavior of unsaturated soils. Due to the difficulty and …