... based on Archie’s equation for fine particles in partially saturated mine-tailing dams. Three specimens of uncoated silt, haematite-coated silt and samples collected from actual mine tailings (Minnesota silt) were prepared in a temperature-compensated cell installed with four electrodes. The test...

... partial saturation unsaturated soils water-retention curve Three series of tests were conducted. The first test series was aimed at quantifying the contact angles of the water meniscus, while the second series was to visualise the formation and evolution of the water meniscus between...

... Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only clays constitutive relations numerical modelling partial saturation plasticity stiffness suction Observations show that many soil structures shrink and swell seasonally (Smethurst et al., 2015 , 2020 ; Standing et...

... partial saturation pore pressure poroelasticity Both components of the interparticle attractive stress are non-linear decay functions of the internal water film thickness, as stated in equations (4) and (5) . Their variation with macroscale variables like water content can be achieved...

... ≤ 9 MPa, leading to a drop of ε_lateral before CC. 03 06 2021 13 10 2022 © 2022 Emerald Publishing Limited 2022 cracks & cracking expansive soils laboratory tests partial saturation Bentonite pellet/powder mixture has been regarded...

..., provided the original work is properly cited. capillary properties environmental engineering geotechnical engineering groundwater landslides numerical methods partial saturation slopes suction Shallow landslides pose a serious hazard to human lives and infrastructures, not only...

... ′ is defined as 1 p ′ = p + χ s 24 08 2021 04 05 2022 © 2022 Thomas Telford Ltd 2022 cone penetration test (CPT) laboratory tests partial saturation tailings Mineral processing produces waste called ‘tailings’ – mixtures of water and soil-sized particles...

... Emerald Publishing Limited 2022 field monitoring landfills partial saturation recycled material vegetation Modern landfills commonly use final cover systems to prevent water infiltration and reduce percolation into the solid waste. Conventional landfill cover systems utilise materials...

... of the fine root fraction all resulted in higher moment capacity and rotational stiffness of the root systems. The overturning behaviour was ductile in fully saturated soil and more brittle in partially saturated cases, with more root breakages in the windward horizontal roots and the taproot complex...

... compaction fabric/structure of soils microscopy partial saturation silts Figure 2 presents the Proctor compaction curves of soils with different soil salinities, which were determined from a standard Proctor compaction test (Afnor, 1999). The maximum dry density of soil without salt (r′ = 0...

... with properties presented in Table 1 . 30 06 2020 07 05 2021 © 2021 Thomas Telford Ltd 2021 bearing capacity centrifuge modelling earthquakes footings/foundations partial saturation soil/structure interaction Fig. 1. A photograph of the physical model annotated with model...

... 07 05 2021 © 2021 Thomas Telford Ltd 2021 expansive soils fabric/structure of soils groundwater, seepage and permeability laboratory tests numerical modelling partial saturation permeability unsaturated soils radioactive waste waste, waste management & compacted land...

...Chao Yuan; Bruno Chareyre The simulation of granular soils partially saturated by two immiscible fluids – say, water and air – has long been restricted to the so-called ‘pendular regime’, in which the wetting phase (i.e. water in air/water systems) is discontinuous and its presence is restricted...

... be expressed as (see Fig. 2(b)) collapsed settlement dewatering environmental engineering failure ground movements partial saturation theoretical analysis Numerical, analytical and empirical methods have been proposed in the geomechanical modelling of sinkhole collapse. Among the former...

... Telford Ltd 2020 laboratory tests partial saturation penetrometers pore pressures shear strength suction A fall cone test (FCT) usually involves releasing a calibrated metal cone from the surface of a remoulded and saturated soil or tailings sample. The sample is usually soft...

... in the pores of unsaturated clay (German, 1989): (a) saturated state; (b) funicular state; (c) pendular state; (d) partial pendular state clays chemical properties discrete-element modelling numerical modelling partial saturation suction In nature, soil is affected by environmental...

.... The implications for slope stability assessment include the need for changeability of soil parameters and of the ground model, with changes occurring both seasonally and gradually over time. fabric/structure of soils field instrumentation laboratory tests partial saturation slopes 15 02 2019...

... & Alonso, 1992 ; Delage et al., 1998). 07 09 2018 10 03 2020 © 2020 Thomas Telford Ltd 2020 constitutive relations fabric/structure of soils mineralogy partial saturation radioactive waste disposal The soil water retention curve characterises the ability...

... liquefaction partial saturation Liquefaction is one of the major geo-hazards during earthquake. The disasters caused by the 2011 New Zealand earthquake and the 2018 Indonesia earthquake have shown that liquefaction could occur over a large extent and thus treatment of liquefaction needs to be carried...

... seems capable of describing the evolution of air permeability for the whole spectrum of compaction states, including specimens subjected to wetting and drying paths. clays compaction partial saturation permeability 22 07 2018 08 01 2020 © 2020 Thomas Telford Ltd 2020...