This paper proposes a Generalized Interpolation Material Point Method (GIMP) for modelling
coupled thermo-hydro-mechanical (THM) processes within unsaturated porous media. The …

Near-surface soils in geotechnical and geoenvironmental applications are often
unsaturated, and natural or imposed changes in temperature may lead to a softening effect …

Several natural and man-made phenomena (eg, droughts, wildfires, shallow geothermal
technologies) can subject unsaturated slopes to elevated temperatures. However, the …

This study presents an analytical framework to estimate the change in ultimate bearing
capacity of energy piles in unsaturated fine-grained soils under drained mechanical loading …

In view of clay slope instability caused by environmental temperature and rainfall infiltration
in summer and autumn, the mechanism of the effect of temperature and saturation on …

Geo-energy applications such as energy piles can expose unsaturated, deep foundation
soils to elevated temperatures. This paper presents a closed-form equation for the ultimate …

Near-surface unsaturated soils can be exposed to elevated temperatures due to soil-
atmospheric interactions under drought events, wildfires, heatwaves, and warm spells, or the …

Key engineering properties of unsaturated soils such as volume change and shear strength
can be defined using the effective stress principle. Several problems like prolonged drought …

There has been an increasing interest in fundamental and applied research on emerging
geotechnical and geoenvironmental engineering applications that pose multi-physics …