Water retention in compacted clays is dominated by multi‐modal pore size distribution which
evolves during hydro‐mechanical paths depending on water content and stress history. A …

Experimental data from different testing methodologies on different compacted clayey soils,
with dominant bimodal pore size distribution, are presented and analysed, to provide a …

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 …

SUMMARY A constitutive model, accounting for multiphase and multiscale coupling, is
proposed for the water retention domain and the stress–strain response of compacted …

This work presents an insight into double-structure effects on the coupled chemo-hydro-
mechanical behaviour of a compacted active clay. In the first part, selected pore size …

Soils used in earth construction projects are mostly unsaturated, and they undergo frequent
drying–wetting cycles (repeated hydraulic loads) due to changes in climatic conditions or …

This paper introduces a novel soil–water retention curve model that considers two different
mechanisms of water retention–namely capillarity and adsorption–and their evolution with …

Main wetting and drying paths in terms of water ratio (volume of water to volume of solids)
indicate a delimiting zone in the water retention curve of an aggregated clayey fabric …

Clay soils with a high montmorillonite content in their mineralogical composition are
characterized by swelling and osmotic properties like biological tissues and polyelectrolyte …

Available approaches for modeling the soil water retention curve are based on parameters
to be fitted using observed data. Due to the formal fitting to the data the soil water retention …