Description
Book SynopsisThis book brings together all the Symposium papers from leading international researchers, published in Geotechnique, the keynote speeches presented at the Symposium, at the Institution of Civil Engineers on 20 June 2011, and a selection of questions posed by delegates during the Symposium, together with answers from presenters.
Table of ContentsContents: 1. Editorial: partial saturation in compacted soils 2. Benchmark of constitutive models for unsaturated soils 3. Benchmark of experimental techniques for measuring and controlling suction 4. An insight into the water retention properties of compacted clayey soils 5. Hydromechanical behaviour of compacted granular expansive mixtures: experimental and constitutive study 6. Experimental observations of the stress regime in unsaturated compacted clay when laterally confined 7. Hydromechanical behaviour of a heterogeneous compacted soil: experimental observations and modelling 8. Modelling the response of Lechage earth and rockfill dam 9. Physical modelling of wetting-induced collapse in embankment base 10. Effects of the maximum soil aggregates size and cyclic wetting-drying on the stiffness of a lime-treated clayey soil 11. Some aspects of the behaviour of compacted soils along wetting paths
