- ISBN: 9789058091390 | 9058091392
- Cover: Hardcover
- Copyright: 1/1/2000
This is a collection of articles from the Asian conference UNSAT-ASIA 2000, covering topics such as: historical developments; numerical modelling; suction measurement techniques; permeability and flow; mass transport; and engineering applications.
| Preface | p. XV |
| Organisation | p. XVII |
| Keynote lectures | |
| Fundamentals of rockfill collapse | p. 3 |
| Some thoughts and studies on the prediction of slope stability in expansive soils | p. 15 |
| Solar energy and evapotranspiration: A control of the unsaturation state in soils | p. 33 |
| Unsaturated tropical residual soils and rainfall induced slope failures in Malaysia | p. 41 |
| Historical developments and milestones in unsaturated soil mechanics | p. 53 |
| Geotechnical aspects of groundwater recharge in arid regions | p. 69 |
| Fundamentals and theoretical developments | |
| Prediction of cone-index from the state parameter of unsaturated soils | p. 85 |
| Physical definition of residual water content in unsaturated soils | p. 91 |
| The behaviour of unsaturated porous media in the light of a micromechanical approach | p. 95 |
| Applicability of a general effective stress concept to unsaturated soils | p. 101 |
| A neural network framework for unsaturated soils | p. 107 |
| Study of the influence of adhesion force on deformation and strength of unsaturated soil by DEM analysis | p. 113 |
| Application of the effective stress principle to volume change in unsaturated soils | p. 119 |
| CT discrimination of fabric change of unsaturated compacted loess during compression process | p. 125 |
| Generalized pore pressure model considering damage for unsaturated soil | p. 131 |
| Constitutive models for triaxial consolidation and shearing of unsaturated soil | p. 137 |
| Damage function and a masonry model for Loess | p. 143 |
| Change of shear strength due to surface tension and matric suction of pore water in unsaturated sandy soils | p. 147 |
| Three-dimensional elasto-plastic model for unsaturated soils | p. 153 |
| Reconsideration of suction controlled techniques by thermodynamics theory of water in soil | p. 159 |
| Understanding of some behaviour of unsaturated soil by theoretical study on capillary action | p. 163 |
| Numerical modelling | |
| Modelling of flow | |
| Analysis of non-Darcy flow in unsaturated soils modelled by finite element method | p. 171 |
| A technology for unsaturated zone modelling under variable weather conditions | p. 177 |
| Volume averaged parameters for two-phase flow | p. 183 |
| Application of FE consolidation analysis method to fill-type dams | p. 189 |
| Finite element modelling of geomechanics and geoenvironmental engineering for subsurface systems | p. 195 |
| General partial differential equation solvers for saturated-unsaturated seepage | p. 201 |
| Numerical modelling of soil water plant interaction | p. 207 |
| Water flow in unsaturated soil slopes with horizontal drains | p. 211 |
| Governing equations of unsaturated seepage taking the effects of air flow and volume change into consideration | p. 217 |
| Modelling of stresses and deformations | |
| Using soil diffusion to design slab-on-ground foundations on expansive soils | p. 223 |
| Volume change predictions in expansive soils using a two-dimensional finite element method | p. 231 |
| A numerical model of ground moisture variations with active vegetation | p. 237 |
| A stress-strain relationship to solve the singularity resulting from coupling the yield surfaces of Barcelona model | p. 243 |
| Undrained conditions of unsaturated soil using an integral form of the constraints and full Newton-Raphson procedure | p. 249 |
| Performances of HiSS [delta subscript 1-unsat] model for soils under saturated and unsaturated conditions | p. 255 |
| Suction measurement techniques | |
| A new matric suction calibration curve | p. 263 |
| Comparison of total suction values from psychrometer and filter paper methods | p. 269 |
| Use of a new thermal conductivity sensor for laboratory suction measurement | p. 275 |
| A comparison of in-situ soil suction measurements | p. 281 |
| Comparative measurements with sand box, pressure membrane extractor and pressure plate extractor | p. 287 |
| Suction calibration curve of filter paper made in China | p. 293 |
| Investigation of suction generation in apparatus employing osmotic methods | p. 297 |
| A study of the efficiency of semi-permeable membranes in controlling soil matrix suction using the osmotic technique | p. 303 |
| Response of the IC tensiometer with respect to cavitation | p. 309 |
| Soil-water characteristics | |
| Mineralogy and microfabric of unsaturated residual soil | p. 317 |
| The use of indicator tests to estimate the drying leg of the soil-water characteristic curve | p. 323 |
| The model of water retention curve considering effects of void ratio | p. 329 |
| A new test procedure to measure the soil-water characteristic curves using a small-scale centrifuge | p. 335 |
| A simple method of determining the soil-water charactistic curve indirectly | p. 341 |
| Preliminary study on soil-water characteristics of two expansive soils | p. 347 |
| Engineering properties of unsaturated soils (volume change and permeability) | p. 353 |
| Soil-water characteristic curves of peaty soils | p. 357 |
| Permeability and flow | |
| A triaxial permeameter for unsaturated soils | p. 365 |
| An explicit relationship for the average capillary suction at the wetting front of soils | p. 371 |
| A method for determining hydraulic conductivity and diffusivity of unsaturated soils | p. 375 |
| A new laboratory method for the measurement of unsaturated coefficients of permeability of soils | p. 381 |
| Water content and soil suction in the capillary zone | p. 387 |
| Examination of the inverse methods for hydraulic properties of unsaturated sandy soil | p. 393 |
| Grain size and void diameter distributions of sands | p. 399 |
| Investigation of seepage behavior through unsaturated soil | p. 405 |
| Numerical simulation for pore fluid flow through unsaturated soil | p. 409 |
| Impact of surface clogging on artificial recharge | p. 415 |
| Determination of field-saturated hydraulic conductivity in unsaturated soil by the pressure infiltrometer method | p. 421 |
| Hydraulic conductivity measurements in two unsaturated soils of Queretaro Valley, Mexico | p. 427 |
| Temperature effects on water retention and water permeability of an unsaturated clay | p. 433 |
| Measuring hydraulic properties for unsaturated soils with unsteady method | p. 439 |
| Inverse analysis of in situ permeability test data for determining unsaturated soil hydraulic properties | p. 445 |
| The application of knowledge-based surface flux boundary modelling | p. 451 |
| Influence of some hydraulic parameters on the pore-water pressure distribution in unsaturated homogeneous soils | p. 457 |
| Mass transport | |
| Experimental studies of salt movement through unsaturated soils | p. 465 |
| Role of unsaturated soil on aqueous diffusion | p. 471 |
| States of saturation and flow as key inputs in modelling the biodegradation of waste refuse | p. 477 |
| Coupled transient heat and moisture flow in unsaturated swelling soil | p. 483 |
| Dispersivity of partially saturated sand estimated by laboratory column test | p. 489 |
| Impact of the 'Alsacian vineyard ingrassed' on nitrate transfer | p. 495 |
| Strength and deformation | |
| Triaxial testing of laterite soils | p. 501 |
| Mechanism of rain-induced slope failure in residual soils | p. 505 |
| Estimation of the relation between suction and cohesion using unconfined compression tests | p. 509 |
| Study on shear strength and swelling-shrinkage characteristic of compacted expansive soil | p. 515 |
| Shear strength and swelling of compacted partly saturated bentonite | p. 521 |
| Combined effect of fabric, bonding and partial saturation on yielding of soils | p. 527 |
| Suction and strength behaviour of unsaturated calcrete | p. 533 |
| Soil behaviour in suction controlled cyclic and dynamic torsional shear tests | p. 539 |
| Effects of moulding water content on the behaviour of an unsaturated silty sand | p. 545 |
| Laboratory study of loosely compacted unsaturated volcanic fill in Hong Kong | p. 551 |
| Direct shear properties of a compacted soil with known stress history | p. 557 |
| Relationship between shear strength and matric suction in an unsaturated silty soil | p. 563 |
| Analysis of a steep slope in unsaturated pyroclastic soils | p. 569 |
| Shear strength behaviour of unsaturated granite residual soil | p. 575 |
| Triaxial testing of unsaturated samples of undisturbed residual soil from Singapore | p. 581 |
| Shear strength of undisturbed Bukit Timah granitic soils under infiltration conditions | p. 587 |
| Volume change | |
| Collapse | |
| Collapsibility of Egyptian loess soil | p. 595 |
| Effect of dissolution of calcium sulfate on volume change characteristics of unsaturated soil sediments | p. 601 |
| Boundary value problems associated with unsaturated soil collapse testing | p. 607 |
| Building on unsaturated fills: Compaction, suction and volume change | p. 613 |
| Shrinkage and swelling | |
| Soil structure influence on the heave reduction factor | p. 621 |
| Vertical swelling of expansive soils under fully and partially lateral restraint conditions | p. 627 |
| Influence of structure and stress history on the drying behaviour of clays | p. 633 |
| Study on the swell properties and soil improvement of compacted expansive soil | p. 639 |
| Effect of mode of wetting on the deformational behavior of unsaturated soils | p. 645 |
| An experimental study of elastic volume change in unsaturated soils | p. 651 |
| The influence of fabric and mineralogy on the expansivity of an Australian residual clay soil | p. 657 |
| Estimation of volume change functions for unsaturated soils | p. 663 |
| On the volume measurement in unsaturated triaxial test | p. 669 |
| Shrinkage behaviour of some tropical clays | p. 675 |
| Effects of compaction on the reduction of undrained strength and stiffness of Cikarang expansive clay due to wetting | p. 681 |
| Evaluation of ground movement using a simple soil suction technique in Western Australia | p. 687 |
| Desiccation cracking of soil layers | p. 693 |
| Analysis of swelling pressure for an expansive soil using the resistance concept | p. 699 |
| Clay stiffness and reactivity derived from clay mineralogy | p. 703 |
| The lateral swelling pressure on the volumetric behaviour of natural expansive soil deposits | p. 709 |
| Engineering characteristics of black cotton soils in Francistown | p. 715 |
| Behaviour of an unsaturated highly expansive clay during cycles of wetting and drying | p. 721 |
| Swelling characteristics of compacted clayey soils related to their wetting curves | p. 727 |
| Engineering applications | |
| Foundations and roads | |
| The blocking effect of piles on ground water level in slopes under rainfall | p. 733 |
| Total soil suction regimes near trees in a semi-arid environment | p. 739 |
| Distress caused by heaving of footing and floor slab--A case study in Gaborone | p. 745 |
| Properties of swelling soils in West Java | p. 751 |
| Multistory apartment building on poznan clay--Case history | p. 757 |
| On the bearing capacity of an unsaturated expansive soil basement | p. 763 |
| Measurement of soil pore pressures in the Danish Road Testing Machine (RTM) | p. 769 |
| Slopes | |
| Field measurements of pore-water pressure profiles in residual soil slopes of the Bukit Timah Granite Formation, Singapore | p. 777 |
| Preliminary assessment of slope stability with respect to rainfall-induced slope failures | p. 783 |
| Three-dimensional back analysis of unsaturated soil strength parameters | p. 789 |
| A new slope stability analysis for Shirasu slopes in Japan | p. 795 |
| Rainfall-induced slope failures in Taiwan | p. 801 |
| Suction and infiltration measurement on cut slope in highly heterogeneous residual soil | p. 807 |
| Modelling variables to predict landslides in the south west flank of the Cameroon volcanic line, Cameroon, West Africa | p. 813 |
| Laboratory experiments on initiation of rainfall-induced slope failure | p. 819 |
| On the stability of unsaturated soil slopes | p. 825 |
| Water retention in a steep moraine slope during periods of heavy rain | p. 831 |
| Influence of rainfall sequences on the seepage conditions within a slope: A parametric study | p. 837 |
| The measurement of matric suction in slopes of unsaturated soil | p. 843 |
| Suction measurement for the prediction of slope failure due to rainfall | p. 847 |
| Author index | p. 853 |
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