... Thomas Telford Ltd 2007 collapse settlement compaction expansive soils partial saturation suction The structure of soil is derived from the arrangement of the particles, and affects the overall mechanical and hydro-mechanical properties (Casagrande, 1932 ; Lambe, 1951 ; Mitchell, 1976...

..., which incorporated an elasto–plastic critical state model applied in terms of effective stress, simulated the effect of collapse settlement and by so doing reproduced a maximum settlement which was close to that measured. The earlier underprediction is attributed mainly to the fact that that analysis...