Rainfall‐triggered landslides are among the most widespread hazards in the world. The
hydrology in and around a landslide area is key to pore pressure buildup in the soil skeleton …

A new soil water retention curve (SWRC) equation, generalized from previous models and
the latest understanding of soil-water interaction, explicitly accounts for capillary and …

The disintegration of granite residual soil is especially affected by variations in physical and
chemical properties. Serious geologic hazards or engineering problems are closely related …

In practical engineering, slopes are in rainfall-evaporation environments over long periods.
Considering the dry-wet cycles effect on unsaturated loess slope instability is of great …

A number of investigations have shown that the shear strength of unsaturated soils can be
defined in terms of effective stress. The difficulty in this approach lies in quantifying the …

A micro-mechanical model to study the microscopic and macroscopic behavior of
unsaturated soils under different suctions is proposed in this study. In the model, a novel …

In the northwest of China, many loess landslides have occurred without clear triggering
factors (ie, rainfall, earthquake, human activities, etc.). To better understand and analyze the …

Unsaturated soil shear strength is an important parameter in soil erosion and management.
Measurement of unsaturated shear strength at field scale is difficult, time-consuming, and …

Commonly used hydraulic models that describe the water retention and transport properties
of variably saturated soils mainly account for the capillary component of matric potential but …

Estimating the contribution of capillary pressure to the effective stress is critical for studying
the mechanical and hydraulic behavior of unsaturated soils. Based on experimental …