Unsaturated soils are often used as a construction material in transportation infrastructures.
In this situation, unsaturated soils are subjected to cyclic mechanical loading from traffic …

This paper presents a consistent three-dimensional elasto-plastic model to study
unsaturated soil behavior with consideration of coupled hydro-mechanical hysteresis. The …

Abstract The Soil Water Characteristic Curve (SWCC) plays an essential role in the
response of unsaturated soils as it quantifies the ability of soils to maintain or lose their …

Most transportation infrastructures are constructed on compacted soils that are typically
unsaturated above the groundwater table. The soils are subjected to cyclic traffic loadings …

More and more attention has been paid to account for the effects of hydraulic behavior
including hydraulic hysteresis on the stress-strain behavior of unsaturated soils. Current …

Studying the hydro-mechanical behavior of the unsaturated soils is one of the critical
challenges in the geotechnical engineering field. Many researchers developed elastoplastic …

Unsaturated soils are commonly encountered in natural soil deposit above the ground water
table and in compacted soil structures. The use of compacted soils in earthquake prone …

Hysteresis is a common feature in the hydraulic properties of unsaturated soils. At a given
matric suction, the volumetric water content on a wetting curve is always lower than that on a …

A modified state-surface approach (MSSA) was proposed in the authors' previous study to
investigate volume change of the soil skeleton for unsaturated soils. This paper discussed …

Hysteresis is a common feature exhibited in hydraulic properties of an unsaturated soil. This
study focuses on hysteresis observed in a compacted weathered granite subgrade soils …