With the advent of modern microstructural testing techniques and microstructure based
constitutive models the microstructural characterisation of soils is gaining prominence. This …

In the subsurface, fluids play a critical role by transporting dissolved minerals, colloids, and
contaminants (sometimes over long distances); by mediating dissolution and precipitation …

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 …

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

A review of the literature is initially presented to bring into light the important microstructural
effects on the hydraulic properties of different compacted clayey soils. Experimental data …

This paper presents a hysteretic water retention curve (WRC) and unsaturated hydraulic
conductivity model for deformable soils based on the change in pore-size distribution (PSD) …

This paper presents an alternative method to couple the hydraulic component with the
mechanical component in a constitutive model for unsaturated soils. Some pioneering work …

The paper presents an analysis of the desiccation process in mining materials, based on
physical laws. Due to the process complexity, most of the previous approaches used have …

The paper deals with an experimental investigation aimed at studying microstructural
features and their consequences on water retention properties of statically compacted …

Saturation conditions play a significant role in the mechanical behavior of granular material
and the evolution of an interparticle contact system during the loading process. Using data …