Soil salinization is a global problem that severely restricts agriculture as well as the
engineering and construction industry. Understanding water and salt transport laws is key to …

The paper presents a review of constitutive modelling of unsaturated soils. After a brief
historical perspective, a number of existing constitutive models are classified and discussed …

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 …

Slope instability in unsaturated residual soils and loose fills has attracted increasing
attention in recent years around the world such as Brazil, South Africa, Japan and in the Far …

The range of problems that geotechnical engineers must face is increasing in complexity
and scope. Often, complexity arises from the interaction between the soil and the …

The disturbed state concept (DSC) is a unified, constitutive modelling approach for
engineering materials that allows for elastic, plastic, and creep strains, microcracking and …

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 …

This paper investigates the thermo-hydro-mechanical (THM) behaviour of soils subjected to
seasonal temperature variations in both permafrost and seasonally frozen conditions …

GMZ bentonite has been selected as a potential material for the construction of engineered
barrier in the Chinese program of geological nuclear waste disposal, for its high …

The paper describes the performance, observations and interpretation of a large-scale in
situ heating test that simulates a disposal concept for heat-emitting, high-level nuclear …