...@strath.ac.uk) 17 09 2025 05 06 2026 © 2026 Emerald Publishing Limited 2026 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only modelling reduction function soil–plant–atmosphere continuum transpiration unsaturated soils vegetation a_root total...

... Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only constitutive modelling geotechnical engineering hydro-mechanical localisation zone localised failure partially saturated soils triaxial tests unsaturated soils Australian Research Council DP190102779 LP220200792 DP240102765...

... Licensed re-use rights only gas transport granular bentonite hydro-mechanical behaviour microstructure partial saturation permeability unsaturated soils This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme ‘European Joint Programme...

... fracture toughness J-integral unsaturated soils National Natural Science Foundation of China 52578402 52090083 52078208 This research was sponsored by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (52578402, 52090083 and 52078208). The experimental data presented in this work...

...Marcos García-García; Diego Manzanal; Manuel Pastor Soil anisotropy has been widely studied for saturated conditions, and its importance is generally accepted. Analysis of anisotropy for unsaturated soils is a less explored topic, both from experimental and constitutive standpoints. This works...

... Limited Licensed re-use rights only drying mode loess microstructure saline earthen sites unsaturated soils National Key R & D Program of China 2023YFF0905901 China Scholarship Council 202206180047 Laboratoire Navier at École nationale des ponts et chaussées (ENPC...

... soils has rarely been reported. Existing apparatus is unable to measure the WRC of unsaturated soils as it could not control the condition of pore water pressure (u_w) in excess of pore air pressure (u_a) when the contact angle was larger than 90°. In this study...

... tension or the generation of a water-repellent surface inside a soil may decrease its retention capacity (Beckett et al., 2016). 27 05 2023 15 12 2023 © 2024 Emerald Publishing Limited 2025 fabric/structure of soils reinforced soils unsaturated soils permeability...

...She-Qiang Cui; Chao Zhou; Qing-Yi Mu; Hua-Fu Pei; Jian-Hua Yin The thermo-mechanical behaviour of saturated and unsaturated soil–structure interfaces plays a key role in analysing the performance of energy piles. Previous studies focused on saturated interfaces and did not investigate the coupled...

... 2024 Emerald Publishing Limited 2024 computational geotechnics finite-element methods unsaturated soils Heterogeneity is a known cause of unstable flow in unsaturated and hydrophobic soils, resulting in fingered flow patterns (Ritsema et al., 1998 ; Sililo & Tellam, 2000...

...Linzhong Li; Aifang Qin; Lei Wang; Lianghua Jiang The feasibility of Carrillo's method is confirmed for consolidation problems of unsaturated soils under instantaneous loading in this study. In the plane strain and axial symmetry consolidation models, the coupled governing equations expressed...

... media has been fully developed (Lian et al., 2021). However, its application to solve fully coupled fluid–solid interaction problems in unsaturated soils is not attested, and to the best of the authors’ knowledge, no SPH attempts to solve these fully coupled problems in unsaturated soils have...

... plane ( v is the specific volume), the critical state lines corresponding to different matric suctions are parallel. critical state laboratory tests matric suction mechanical properties unsaturated soils Fig. 4. Soil water retention curve of silty sand The unsaturated...

... ; Chen & Hai, 2012 ; Muñoz-Castelblanco et al., 2012 ; Zhou et al., 2014 ; Ng et al., 2017 ; Wang et al., 2019), the application of unsaturated soil mechanics to the New Zealand loess has been limited. An improved understanding of how the strength may...

... 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 In most concepts for radioactive waste disposal at great...

...V. SIVAKUMAR; J. KODIKARA; R. O'HAGAN; D. HUGHES; P. CAIRNS; J.D. McKINLEY This paper examines the performance of unsaturated soils under repeated loading. As part of the research, a triaxial system was developed that incorporates small-strain measurements using Hall effect transducers, in addition...

...L. L. Zhang; L. M. Zhang; W. H. Tang 05 05 2004 16 12 2004 © 2005 Thomas Telford Ltd 2005 slopes unsaturated soils Pore water pressure changes due to seepage will lead to changes in stresses and therefore to deformation of a soil. Conversely, stress changes...

... to model the unsaturated soil properties such as the coefficient of permeability and shear strength using the soil–water characteristic and the conventional saturated soil properties. These procedures are attractive to engineering practitioners because rigorous laboratory tests on unsaturated soil...