Advanced Experimental Unsaturated Soil Mechanics

Informationen zum Autor A. Tarantino, Università degli Studi di Trento, Trento, Italy E. Romero, Università degli Studi di Trento, Trento, Italy, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain Y.J. Cui, Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées, Paris, France Klappentext A peer-reviewed collection of papers from the Proceedings of an International Symposium on Advanced Experimental Unsaturated Soil Mechanics, held in Trento, Italy, on 27-29 June 2005. The topics tackled by the papers include suction measurement, suction control, mechanical and hydraulic laboratory testing, geoenvironmental testing, and field-testing. Zusammenfassung A peer-reviewed collection of papers from the Proceedings of an International Symposium on Advanced Experimental Unsaturated Soil Mechanics, held in Trento, Italy, on 27-29 June 2005. The topics tackled by the papers include suction measurement, suction control, mechanical and hydraulic laboratory testing, geoenvironmental testing, and field-testing. Inhaltsverzeichnis Suction measurement Lessons learnt from suction monitoring during centrifuge modeling Pressure pulse technique for measuring diffused air volume A new soil-water characteristic curve device Soil suction measurement using the Xeritron Sensor in two different types of infiltration tests on a swelling soil Swelling and suction in clay minerals The effect of structure on the water retention of soil tested using different methods of suction measurement l Suction control Controlled suction oedometric tests: analysis of some experimental aspects Behavior upon drying-wetting paths of Maghnia Bentonite (west of Algeria) An investigation into hydro-mechanical behavior of an expansive soil using axis-translation and vapor equilibrium techniques Combining different controlled-suction techniques to study expansive clays On the suction control techniques in studying the THM behavior of unsaturated soils Determination of water retention curves of two bentonites at high temperature 7v Mechanical testing in unsaturated soils A direct shear box improved with the osmotic technique Volume change measurement of partially saturated rockfill in triaxial tests Advancement in oedometer testing of unsaturated soils A tensile strength apparatus for cohesionless soils Direct shear testing of interfaces in unsaturated soil Measuring lateral pressures during suction-controlled one-dimensional consolidation Determination of the shear strength of unsaturated soils using the modified ring shear apparatus Experimental study of flowslide on reconstituted samples of pyroclastic soils: soil characterization and testing devices Mechanical behaviour of unsaturated soils Wetting paths upon shearing: experimental evidence and comparative analysis of two volcanic soils in the area of Napoli and Roma Seasonal variation of a subgrade soil resilient modulus in southern Brazil Wetting and anisotropic consolidation behaviour of an expansive clay Swell and shrink tests in modified oedometer apparatuses A study of the shear strength of two unsaturated colluvium soils Direct shear and compression behaviors for an unsaturated compacted soil with water content and matric suction measurement Investigations on the unsaturated stress-strain behaviour and on the SWCC of Hostun Sand in a double-walled triaxial cell Analysis of the deformability of compacted tropical residual soils Stiffness of unsaturated compacted clayey soils at very small strains Experimental and modeling of unsaturated soil behavior under stress path tests Stresses and conjugate strain-increments in plotting experimental data for unsaturated soils Influence of matric suction on the s...

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A. Tarantino, Università degli Studi di Trento, Trento, Italy

E. Romero, Università degli Studi di Trento, Trento, Italy, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain

Y.J. Cui, Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées, Paris, France

Klappentext

A peer-reviewed collection of papers from the Proceedings of an International Symposium on Advanced Experimental Unsaturated Soil Mechanics, held in Trento, Italy, on 27-29 June 2005. The topics tackled by the papers include suction measurement, suction control, mechanical and hydraulic laboratory testing, geoenvironmental testing, and field-testing.

Inhalt

Suction measurement

Lessons learnt from suction monitoring during centrifuge modeling

Pressure pulse technique for measuring diffused air volume

A new soil-water characteristic curve device

Soil suction measurement using the Xeritron Sensor in two different types of infiltration tests

on a swelling soil

Swelling and suction in clay minerals

The effect of structure on the water retention of soil tested using different methods of suction

measurement l

Suction control

Controlled suction oedometric tests: analysis of some experimental aspects

Behavior upon drying-wetting paths of Maghnia Bentonite (west of Algeria)

An investigation into hydro-mechanical behavior of an expansive soil using axis-translation and

vapor equilibrium techniques

Combining different controlled-suction techniques to study expansive clays

On the suction control techniques in studying the THM behavior of unsaturated soils

Determination of water retention curves of two bentonites at high temperature 7v

Mechanical testing in unsaturated soils

A direct shear box improved with the osmotic technique

Volume change measurement of partially saturated rockfill in triaxial tests

Advancement in oedometer testing of unsaturated soils

A tensile strength apparatus for cohesionless soils

Direct shear testing of interfaces in unsaturated soil

Measuring lateral pressures during suction-controlled one-dimensional consolidation

Determination of the shear strength of unsaturated soils using the modified ring shear apparatus

Experimental study of flowslide on reconstituted samples of pyroclastic soils: soil

characterization and testing devices

Mechanical behaviour of unsaturated soils

Wetting paths upon shearing: experimental evidence and comparative analysis of two volcanic

soils in the area of Napoli and Roma

Seasonal variation of a subgrade soil resilient modulus in southern Brazil

Wetting and anisotropic consolidation behaviour of an expansive clay

Swell and shrink tests in modified oedometer apparatuses

A study of the shear strength of two unsaturated colluvium soils

Direct shear and compression behaviors for an unsaturated compacted soil with water

content and matric suction measurement

Investigations on the unsaturated stress-strain behaviour and on the SWCC of Hostun Sand

in a double-walled triaxial cell

Analysis of the deformability of compacted tropical residual soils

Stiffness of unsaturated compacted clayey soils at very small strains

Experimental and modeling of unsaturated soil behavior under stress path tests

Stresses and conjugate strain-increments in plotting experimental data for unsaturated soils

Influence of matric suction on the shear strength of a compacted Kaolonite under

unconfined conditions: Experimental results (Part 1)

Influence of matric suction on the shear strength of compacted Kaolin soil under

unconfined conditions: Shear strength prediction (Part 2)

Stress-strain behavior of an unsaturated residual soil from gneiss

Experimental study of the effect of cyclic suction loading on shear behavior of collapsible soils Influence of sample preparation technique on the stress-strain behaviour of unsaturated soils

An elastoplastic hydro-mechanical model for unsaturated compacted soils

Seismic compression behaviour of non-plastic silty sands

An empirical relationship for evaluating collapsible settlements of volcanic ash sandy soil

A direct testing method for the tensile strength of compacted clays

Hydraulic testing in unsaturated soils

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