Novel Issues on Unsaturated Soil Mechanics and Rock Engineering: Proceedings of the 2nd GeoMEast International Congress and Exhibition on Sustainable Civil Infrastructures, Egypt 2018 – The Official International Congress of the Soil-Structure Interaction Group in Egypt (SSIGE)

Front Matter ....Pages i-xvi
 Investigation of Bentonite Qualities on Water Retention Characteristic Curve  (D. Abhijit, S. Sreedeep)....Pages 1-9
 Water Retention Behavior of Palm Oil Mixed Kaolin  (Anirudh Subramanya Sriraam, Mavinakere Eshwaraiah Raghunandan, Jayantha Kodikara, Tey Beng Ti)....Pages 10-20
 Predicting Swelling Potential and Soil-Water Retention Curves of Some Characterized Expansive Clays Based on Geotechnical Properties  (Hossein Assadollahi, Hossein Nowamooz)....Pages 21-36
 Characterization of Hydro-Mechanical Effects of Suction and Clay Minerals on Resilient Modulus, Mr  (Aneke Frank Ikechukwu, Mostafa M. Hassan, A. Moubarak)....Pages 37-59
 Evaluation of Subgrade Resilient Modulus from Unsaturated CBR Test  (Aneke Frank Ikechukwu, Mostafa M. Hassan, A. Moubarak)....Pages 60-81
 A Proposed Approach for Calculating Collapse Settlement  (Mohamed G. Marei, Tareq M. Abdelaziz, Ahmed M. Ragheb, Naema Ali)....Pages 82-96
 Modeling Root Water Uptake, Climate and Unsaturated Vegetated Clays Interactions in the Context of Shallow Foundation Soils  (Hossein Assadollahi, Hossein Nowamooz)....Pages 97-117
 Application of Fragility Curves to Investigate the Effect of Rainfall Pattern in the Performance of an Idealized Slope  (Sreejith Parippayi, Soon-Thiam Khu, Mavinakere Eshwaraiah Raghunandan)....Pages 118-127
 Prediction of Water Discharge Through the Foundation of a Rockfill Dam in Brazil  (José Luis Carrasco Gutierrez, Celso Romanel)....Pages 128-140
 Experimental Investigation on the Crack Propagation and Coalescence in Rock-Like Specimens with Pre-existing Cracks Under Compressive Loading  (Seyed Alireza Fatemi, Ahmad Fahimifar)....Pages 141-148
 Addressing Problems Related to Construction in the Middle East of High Rise Buildings on Soft Rocks  (Peter Scott, David Simpson)....Pages 149-168
 A Modified Correlation Using Statistical Techniques in Estimating the Uniaxial Compressive Strength of Sedimentary Rocks Based on P-Wave Velocity- A Case Study  (Fereshteh Fatehi, Abbas Abbaszadeh Shahri)....Pages 169-173
 Effects of Rock Joint Inclinations and Spacings on the Static Behavior of Dam Foundation  (Saurabh Kumar, Prasun Halder, Bappaditya Manna, K. G. Sharma)....Pages 174-178
 Laboratory Characterization of Reservoir Rock and Fluids of Upper Assam Basin, India  (Joyshree Barman, Subrata Borgohain Gogoi, Jayakumar Viswanathan, Debasish Konwar, Kumaresan Jagatheesan)....Pages 179-197
 Modelling and Analyses of Rock Bridge Fracture and Step-Path Failure in Open-Pit Mine Rock Slope  (Maged Al Mandalawi, Greg You, Peter Dahlhaus, Kim Dowling, Mays Sabry)....Pages 198-226
Back Matter ....Pages 227-227