...Zhenhao Shi; David Muir Wood; Maosong Huang; James P. Hambleton Constitutive models constructed within the combined framework of kinematic hardening and bounding surface plasticity have proved to be successful in describing the rate-independent deformation of soils under non-monotonic histories...

... curve. The proposed reference state curve is then applied to understanding and predicting some important aspects of soil behaviour such as: (a) stress ratios at the peak point of undrained effective stress paths and (b) the ‘reverse behaviour’ of sandy soils that show an unusual...

...V. R. Tarnawski; T. Momose; W. H. Leong Accurate predictions of soil thermal conductivity k are strongly influenced by the volumetric fraction of quartz, Θ_q, data for which are very scarce. This paper reveals a new approach to estimate Θ_q from measured k...

...   ( as decimal ) where subscripts t1 and t2 are different oven-drying temperatures. laboratory tests soils temperature effects standards The water content, w, is defined in geotechnical literature as the ratio of the mass of the pore water...

...L. M. Merckelbach; C. Kranenburg Equations for the Terzaghi effective stress and permeability of clay–silt–sand mixtures are derived on the basis of a scale-invariant structure of the soil to enhance physical interpretation of the empirical coefficients. The behaviour of soft sediment is assumed...

... the capabilities of the loading rig to investigate both peak and residual loads. The carbonate material used was obtained from a grab sample at the Goodwyn site off the North West Shelf of Western Australia. Carbonate sands can have in-situ void ratios of up to 2, and are problematic soils in that upon...

...M. A. Paul; B. F. Barras © 1999 Thomas Telford Ltd 1999 chemical properties clays organic soils plasticity sedimentation soil classification Paul, M. A. & Barras, B. F. (1999). GeÂotechnique 49, No. 4, 529±535 TECHNICAL NOTE Role of organic material in the plasticity of Bothkennar...

...M. H. Goldsworthy Goldsworthy, M. H. (1990). GCotechnique 40, No. 2, 281-284 TECHNICAL NOTE Filter tests-direct or indirect? M. H. GOLDSwORTHY* KEYWORDS: dams; design; erosion; filters; residual soils. INTRODUCTION There is now general acceptance of the concept of critical filters (Sherard...