Experimental Evidence and Theoretical Approaches in Unsaturated Soils

PrefaceAcknowledgementsExperimental Evidence1. Experimental investigations on the stress variables governing unsaturated soil behaviour at medium to high degrees of saturation2. Investigating infiltration into compacted unsaturated heterogeneous soils3. Collapse tests on isotropic and anisotropic compacted soils4. Retention curves and 1-D behaviour of a compacted tectonised unsaturated clay5. Volume change behaviour of a dense compacted swelling clay under stress and suction changes6. Soil behaviour in the small and the large strain range under controlled suction conditions7. Retention curves of deformable claysTheoretical Approaches8. Inclusion of hydraulic hysteresis in a new elasto-plastic framework for unsaturated soils9. An elastoplastic hydro-mechanical model for unsaturated soils10. Remarks on the constitutive modelling of unsaturated soils11. Modelling the behaviour of unsaturated silt12. Interpretation of shear response upon wetting of natural unsaturated pyroclastic soilsMiscellaneousList of participantsAuthor index, including addresses