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Unsaturated Soils: Research and Applications

Volume 2

  • Conference proceedings
  • © 2012

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Editors:
  1. Claudio Mancuso

    1. Napoli Federico II, Department of Hydraulic, Geotechnical, Università degli Studi di, Naples, Italy

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  2. Cristina Jommi

    1. , Department of Structural Engineering, Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy

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  3. Francesca D’Onza

    1. Napoli Federico II, Department of Hydraulic, Geotechnical, Università degli Studi di, Napoli, Italy

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  • Recent Research in Unsaturated Soils

  • Proceedings of the 2nd European Conference on Unsaturated Soils held in Naples, Italy on 20-22 June 2012

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Table of contents (56 papers)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages 1-13
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  2. Modelling

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-2
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    2. The Effective Stress in Unsaturated Soils: Insights from Thermodynamics

      • Ehsan Nikooee, Ghassem Habibagahi, S. Majid Hassanizadeh, Arsalan Ghahramani
      Pages 5-11

    3. The Meaning of Stresses and Strains in Unsaturated Soils

      • Edward J. Murray, Vinayagamoothy Sivakumar
      Pages 13-21

    4. The Yielding of Unsaturated Granular Materials

      • Giuseppe Buscarnera, Itai Einav
      Pages 23-29

    5. Shear Strength and Negative Water Potential in Unsaturated, Compacted Clays

      • Sam Frydman
      Pages 31-37

    6. Modified Grading Curve – SWCC Relations

      • Emoke Imre, Kálmán Rajkai, Tibor Firgi, Imre Laufer, Riccardo Genovese, Cristina Jommi
      Pages 39-46

    7. Fractal Soil-Water Characteristics with Hysteresis

      • Adrian R. Russell
      Pages 47-53

    8. Modelling the Water Retention Domain of a Compacted Scaly Clay

      • Gabriele Della Vecchia, Camillo Airò Farulla, Cristina Jommi
      Pages 55-62

    9. Hydric Model of Unsaturated Soils

      • Zoheir Bellia, Moulay Smaine Ghembaza, Mohamed Rabhi
      Pages 63-68

    10. Evaluation of Various Soil-Water Characteristic Curve Models for Soils from Greece

      • Panagiotis Sitarenios, Michael Bardanis, Michael Kavvadas
      Pages 69-76

    11. Swelling Characteristics of Sand-Bentonite Mixtures

      • Sai K. Vanapalli, L. Lu, J. A. Infante Sedano, W. T. Oh
      Pages 77-84

    12. Elastic or Elasto-Plastic: Examination of Certain Strain Increments in the Barcelona Basic Model

      • Wojciech T. Sołowski, Scott W. Sloan
      Pages 85-91

    13. A New Procedure for Determining Parameter Values in the Barcelona Basic Model

      • Francesca D’Onza, Domenico Gallipoli, Simon J. Wheeler
      Pages 93-102

    14. A Refined Approach to Barcelona Basic Model Using the Apparent Tensile Strength Concept

      • Laureano R. Hoyos, Diego D. Pérez-Ruiz
      Pages 103-110

    15. Modelling Volume Change Behaviour for Unsaturated Soils in the Stress–Saturation Space

      • Annan Zhou, Daichao Sheng
      Pages 111-118

    16. Modelling Compacted Soil Behaviour Including Microstructural Features

      • Núria M. Pinyol, Eduardo E. Alonso, Antonio Gens
      Pages 119-127

    17. Influence of Anisotropy on Yielding and Critical States of an Unsaturated Soil

      • Muayad Al-Sharrad, Simon J. Wheeler, Domenico Gallipoli
      Pages 129-136

    18. Prediction of the Behavior of Loess with the Extended MRS-Lade Model

      • Ricardo Schiava, Facundo M. Cocco, Ricardo A. Schiava
      Pages 137-142

    19. On Elastoplastic Damage Modelling in Unsaturated Geomaterials

      • Solenn Le Pense, Behrouz Gatmiri, Ahmad Pouya
      Pages 143-149
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About this book

These volumes contain the contributions to the Second European Conference on Unsaturated Soils, E-UNSAT 2012, held in Napoli, Italy, in June 2012. The event is the second of a series of European conferences, and follows the first successful one, organised in Durham, UK, in 2008. The conference series is supported by Technical Committee 106 of the International Society of Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering on Unsaturated Soils. The published contributions were selected after a careful peer-review process. A collection of more than one hundred papers is included, addressing the three thematic areas experimental, including advances in testing techniques and soil behaviour, modelling, covering theoretical and constitutive issues together with numerical and physical modelling, and engineering, focusing on approaches, case histories and geo-environmental themes. The areas of application of the papers embrace most of the geotechnical problems related to unsaturated soils. Increasing interest in geo-environmental problems, including chemical coupling, marks new perspectives in unsaturated soil mechanics. This book will provide a valuable up-to-date reference across the subject for both researchers and practitioners.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Napoli Federico II, Department of Hydraulic, Geotechnical, Università degli Studi di, Naples, Italy

    Claudio Mancuso

  • , Department of Structural Engineering, Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy

    Cristina Jommi

  • Napoli Federico II, Department of Hydraulic, Geotechnical, Università degli Studi di, Napoli, Italy

    Francesca D’Onza

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Unsaturated Soils: Research and Applications

  • Book Subtitle: Volume 2

  • Editors: Claudio Mancuso, Cristina Jommi, Francesca D’Onza

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-31343-1

  • Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg

  • eBook Packages: Engineering, Engineering (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2012

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-642-31342-4Published: 24 June 2012

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-642-44488-3Published: 18 July 2014

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-642-31343-1Published: 23 June 2012

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XVI, 460

  • Topics: Renewable and Green Energy

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