Many shallow foundations are constructed within the soil layer above the groundwater table, where the soil remains unsaturated, and the failure of shallow foundation is mostly related to …
A Garg, I Wani, H Zhu, V Kushvaha - Acta Geotechnica, 2022 - Springer
Recently, incentives have been provided in many countries, including Canada and Denmark, to produce biochar for construction usage. This is done because biochar is carbon …
X Li, JH Li, LM Zhang - Computers and geotechnics, 2014 - Elsevier
Experimental evidence shows that a gap-graded soil or a widely-graded granular material may have a bimodal soil–water characteristic curve (SWCC) and a bimodal permeability …
Rainfall-induced slope failures are commonly observed in residual soil. Due to weathering, the residual soil properties vary with depths, especially in tropical countries, such as …
J Xia, C Cai, Y Wei, X Wu - Catena, 2019 - Elsevier
Collapsing gully erosion, a special erosion phenomenon in the hilly granitic regions, is an important factor responsible for the deterioration of the ecological environment in southern …
The soil-water characteristic curve (SWCC) contains information regarding the geometric pore space in a soil and is commonly used to estimate unsaturated soil properties, such as …
Y Jiang, W Chen, G Wang, G Sun, F Zhang - Bulletin of Engineering …, 2017 - Springer
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 …
DG Fredlund - Canadian Geotechnical Journal, 2019 - cdnsciencepub.com
Routine geotechnical engineering practice has witnessed a significant increase in the usage of unsaturated soil mechanics principles. Laboratory measurement of the soil-water …