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Soil Mechanics for Unsaturated Soils

ISBN: 978-0-471-85008-3
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544 pages
September 1993
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Chapter 1 Introduction to Unsaturated Soil Mechanics 1

Chapter 2 Phase Properties and Relations 20

Chapter 3 Stress State Variables 38

Chapter 4 Measurements of Soil Suction 64
 
Chapter 5 Flow Laws 107
 
Chapter 6 Measurement of Permeability 124
 
Chapter 7 Steady-State Flow 150
 
Chapter 8 Pore Pressure Parameters 178
 
Chapter 9 Shear Strength Theory 217
 
Chapter 10 Measurement of Shear Strength Parameters 260
 
Chapter 11 Plastic and Limit Equilibrium 297
 
Chapter 12 Volume Change Theory 346
 
Chapter 13 Measurements of Volume Change Indices 374
 
Chapter 14 Volume Change Predictions 397
 
Chapter 15 One-Dimensional Consolidation and Swelling 419
 
Chapter 16 Two- and Three-Dimensional Unsteady-State Flow and Nonisothermal Analyses 440
 
Appendix A Units and Symbols 479

Appendix B Theoretical Justification for Stress State Variables 483
 
References 490

About the Authors 508
 
Index 510

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