a key constitutive relationship for defining effective stress in variably saturated soils. The
SSCC can be deduced either from shear strength tests under variably saturated conditions
or from soil water retention tests. This paper provides an alternative way to obtain the SSCC
by conducting nonfailure K 0 consolidation tests. Multiple remolded specimens from two
different granitic residual soils, a silty sand (SM) and a clayey sand (SC), were evaluated in …