... hydrophobicity partial saturation tailings unsaturated soils Statistical analysis was conducted on each measured parameter in the current study to assess the significance level of effects. The experimental results were interpreted by adopting two-way analysis of variance for estimating statistical...

... 2026 Emerald Publishing Limited 2026 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only climate action concrete technology & manufacture fly ash geopolymers root water uptake unsaturated soils UN SDG 13: Climate action vegetation water-absorbing polymer National...

... fail to capture the coupled hydraulic–mechanical interactions in unsaturated soils under varying rainfall conditions. Predictive frameworks also tend to rely on large or site-specific datasets, limiting their practical use for rapid assessment. This study presents a proof-of-concept experimental...

... Licensed re-use rights only challenging and problematic soils geotechnical engineering hydraulic effect, soil hydraulic properties, root water uptake, Hydrus-2D unsaturated soils vegetation Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities, CHD 300102264501-02 Shannxi...

...Qian Zhai; Ruize Zhang; Harianto Rahardjo; Alfrendo Satyanaga; Guoliang Dai; Weimin Gong; Xianyue Chen; Liangzhong Qian; YuanShen Chua It is important for engineers to understand the behaviour of the shear modulus of unsaturated soils (G_unsat) for the geotechnical analyses...

... disposal environments. geotechnical engineering microstructure porous media characterisation radioactive waste disposal unsaturated soils European Commission 847593 Synchrotron SOLEIL 20210769 Investments for the Future program of the French National Research Agency (ANR...

... to a different water uptake and water retention behaviour of B-P GCLs. 01 07 2025 03 12 2025 © 2025 Emerald Publishing Limited 2025 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only geosynthetic clay liner geosynthetics polymer soil-geosynthetic interaction unsaturated soils...

... of unsaturated soil plays an important role in agriculture (specifically arid and semi-arid conditions), geoenvironmental projects, such as urban green infrastructures, and vegetated land cover (Zhai et al., 2023). Understanding the water retention behaviour of unsaturated soils facilitates efficient...

... with time represented in days, while the y axis represents the respective measurement units for each graph. bio geotechnics biochar expansive soil slope moisture-related properties recycled material unsaturated soils UN SDG 13: Climate action UN SDG 15: Life on land vegetation NSFC...

... expansive soils with important engineering application value significance. © 2025 Emerald Publishing Limited 2025 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only compressive strength electron microscopy expansive soil microstructure reinforced soils soil stabilisation unsaturated...

... unsaturated soils Corresponding author Alaaeldin Magdy (Alaaeldin.ogail@univ-lille.fr) Declaration of competing interest The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work in this paper...

... et al., 2021 ; Lourenço et al., 2012) have shown that as water content increases, the water meniscus in liquid bridges transitions from concave to convex. Thus, positive matric potentials also commonly exist in unsaturated soils. When the matric potential is 0, based on Equation 1...

... capacity. Emerald Publishing Limited: All rights reserved 2025 moisture-related properties numerical modelling UN SDG 13: Climate action UN SDG 15: Life on land unsaturated soils c_p,g heat capacity of the gas phase c_p,l heat capacity...

... Emerald Publishing Limited: All rights reserved 2024 chromium ore processing residue (COPR) hydration transport modelling unsaturated soils water retention curve a fitting parameter in Fredlund–Xing (FX) model C concentration C₀...

.... 2 θ = H w L mining & environmental issues unsaturated soils waste management & disposal A curve-fitting parameter for compressibility a van Genuchten fitting parameter B curve-fitting parameter for compressibility...

.... A correction method for the heel effect is presented, the use of which will prevent significant errors in derived soil parameters such as water content. porous-media characterisation strength & testing of materials unsaturated soils X-ray computed tomography (CT) is increasingly used...

...Wen-jie Zhang, PhD; Xiao-bing Xu, PhD This study aims at understanding the migration behaviours of heavy metals in unsaturated soils, especially the influences of soil water content. An unsaturated advection–diffusion column test apparatus was developed. The advection–diffusion tests were performed...

...) 26 11 2019 07 04 2020 Emerald Publishing Limited: All rights reserved 2023 groundwater landslides unsaturated soils n soil porosity S_r saturation degree s soil matric suction u_a pore air pressure...

..., at the open space; 4, beside Samanea saman (corresponding author: chrahardjo@ntu.edu.sg) 10 02 2019 21 08 2019 ICE Publishing: All rights reserved 2021 strength & testing of materials testing & evaluation unsaturated soils g acceleration...

...Guo-yao Gao, MSc; Feng-xi Zhou, PhD; Xue Wang, MSc Based on the theory of porous media, the multifield coupling problem of heat–moisture–salt in unsaturated layered soil under the steady condition is studied considering that the pore of unsaturated soil is filled with liquid water, dissolved salt...