The influence of the stress regime change and associated softening can be significant on
unsaturated expansive soil slope stability due to soil swelling upon wetting, which cannot be …

An expansive soil slope of a high-speed railway under construction in Yunnan suffered a
local collapse after a heavy rainfall. The expansive soil on this slope surface is prone to slip …

This paper presents simulation results of the performance of an unsaturated expansive soil
slope during artificial rainfall events from a field investigation. The field study, conducted on …

To get a better understanding of failure mechanism of slopes in soils that exhibit expansive
characteristics subjected to any type of inundations, particularly, when the soils switch from …

Rainfall is one of the leading causes of transportation embankment failure. Similarly, the fill
material properties and the loading conditions of the embankment serve as principals for …

Soil dilatancy behavior is crucial in the numerical modeling of slopes for safety factor (SF)
computation. The effect of dilatancy on the SF of stabilized expansive soils has been rarely …

Shallow foundations are used in many scenarios to transmit the loads from the lightly loaded
superstructures constructed on expansive soil slopes. Infiltration associated with rainfall and …

Climate change is known to cause alterations in weather patterns and disturb the natural
equilibrium. Changes in climatic conditions lead to increased environmental stress on …

The main objective of this research was to develop a model for predicting weather-induced
volumetric changes. Based on the unique soil properties of cracked expansive clays, the …

Several geotechnical processes can only be reliably interpreted by taking account of the soil-
atmosphere interactions. This thesis investigates two geotechnical problems involving soil …