Springer Proceedings in Physics 112

Experimental Unsaturated Soil Mechanics

Bearbeitet von
Tom Schanz

1. Auflage 2007. Buch. xi, 505 S. Hardcover

ISBN 978 3 540 69872 2
Format (B x L): 15,5 x 23,5 cm
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Contents

Part I Microstructure and Fabric

Influence of Relative Density and Clay Fraction on Soils

Collapse
Khelifa Abbeche, Farid Hammoud, and Tahar Ayadat . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3

Microstructure Features in the Behaviour of Engineered

Barriers for Nuclear Waste Disposal
Pierre Delage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Microstructure of Gypsiferous Crust and Its Importance to
Unsaturated Soil Behaviour
Ghazi Mokdad, Omran Alshihabi, and Leo Stroosnijder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Fabric Changes in Compacted London Clay Due to Variations
in Applied Stress and Suction
Rafael Monroy, Lidija Zdravkovic, and Andrew Ridley . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41

Microstructure of a Lime Stabilised Compacted Silt

Giacomo Russo, Sebastiana Dal Vecchio, and Giuseppe Mascolo . . . . . . . . 49

Part II Measuring Suction

Errors in Total Suction Measurements

Setianto Samingan Agus and Tom Schanz . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
Application of a Dew Point Method to Obtain the Soil Water
Characteristic
Gaylon S. Campbell, David M. Smith, and Brody L. Teare . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
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A Comparative Study of Soil Suction Measurement Using

Two Different High-Range Psychrometers
Rafaela Cardoso, Enrique Romero, Analice Lima, and Alessio Ferrari . . 79

Determination of the Soil Water Retention Curve with

Tensiometers
Sérgio Lourenço, Domenico Gallipoli, David Toll, Fred Evans, and
Gabriela Medero . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95

Tensiometer Development for High Suction Analysis in

Laboratory Lysimeters
Cláudio Fernando Mahler and Abdoul Aziz Diene . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103

Part III Strength and Dilatancy

Dilatancy of Coarse Granular Aggregates

Eduardo E. Alonso, Enrique F. Ortega Iturralde, and Enrique
E. Romero . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119
A Laboratory Investigation into the Effect of Water Content
on the CBR of a Subgrade soil
Samuel Innocent Kofi Ampadu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137
Shear Strength Affected by Suction Tension in Unsaturated
Fine Grained Soils?
Carola Bönsch and Christof Lempp . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145

Shear Strength Behaviour of Unsaturated Silty Soil

Ali R. Estabragh and Akbar A. Javadi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153
Experimental Investigation on the Time Dependent Behaviour
of a Multiphase Chalk
Grégoire Priol, Vincenzo De Gennaro, Pierre Delage, and Thibaut
Servant . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161
Testing Unsaturated Soil for Plane Strain Conditions: A New
Double Wall Biaxial Device
Tom Schanz and Jamal Alabdullah . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169
Influence of State Variables on the Shear Behaviour of an
Unsaturated Clay
Viktoria Schwarz, Andreas Becker, and Christos Vrettos . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179

Effect of Capillary and Cemented Bonds on the Strength of

Unsaturated Sands
Fabien Soulié, Moulay Saïd El Youssoufi, Jean-Yves Delenne, and
Christian Saix . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185
 Contents IX

Determining the Shear Strength of Unsaturated Silt

Shulin Sun and Huifang Xu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195
Factors Affecting Tensile Strength Measurement and Modified
Tensile Strength Measuring Apparatus for Soil
Surendra Bahadur Tamrakar, Toshiyuki Mitachi, and Yasuo Toyosawa . . 207

The Tensile Strength of Compacted Clays as Affected by

Suction and Soil Structure
Rainer M. Zeh and Karl Josef Witt . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 219

Part IV Temperature Effects

Modified Isochoric Cell for Temperature Controlled Swelling

Pressure Tests
Yulian Firmana Arifin and Tom Schanz . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 229
Some Aspects of the Effect of the Temperature on the
Behaviour of Unsaturated Sandy Clay
Moulay Smaine Ghembaza, Said Taïbi, and Jean-Marie Fleureau . . . . . . . 243
Influence of Temperature on the Water Retention Curve of
Soils. Modelling and Experiments
Simon Salager, Moulay Saïd El Youssoufi, and Christian Saix . . . . . . . . . 251

Thermo-Hydro-Mechanical Behaviour of Compacted

Bentonite
Abbass Tavallali, Anh-Minh Tang, and Yu-Jun Cui . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 259
Retention Curves of Two Bentonites at High Temperature
María Victoria Villar and Roberto Gómez-Espina . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 267

Part V Volumetric Behaviour – Expansive Materials

Experimental Study on Shrinkage Behaviour and Prediction

of Shrinkage Magnitudes of Residual Soils
Sarita Dhawan, Anil Kumar Mishra, and Sudhakar M . Rao . . . . . . . . . . . . 277

Assessment of Swelling Deformation of Unsaturated Kaolinite

Clay
Markus Dobrowolsky and Christos Vrettos . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 285
Suction and Collapse of Lumpy Spoilheaps in Northwestern
Bohemia
Vladislava Herbstová, Jan Boháč, and Ivo Herle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 293
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Oedometer Creep Tests of a Partially Saturated Kaolinite

Clay
Piotr Kierzkowski . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 301

Analysis of the Expansive Clay Hydration under Low

Hydraulic Gradient
Marcelo Sánchez, María Victoria Villar, Antonio Lloret,
and Antonio Gens . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 309

Moisture Effects on Argillaceous Rocks

Chun-Liang Zhang and Tilmann Rothfuchs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 319

Part VI Retention Behaviour

Results from Suction Controlled Laboratory Tests on

Unsaturated Bentonite – Verification of a Model
Ann Dueck . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 329

Variation of Degree of Saturation in Unsaturated Silty Soil

Ali R. Estabragh and Akbar A. Javadi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 337
Mechanical Behaviour of Compacted Scaly Clay During
Cyclic Controlled-Suction Testing
Camillo Airò Farulla, Alessio Ferrari, and Enrique Romero . . . . . . . . . . . 345

Prediction of Soil–Water Characteristic Curve Based on Soil

Index Properties
Navid Ganjian, Yadollah Pashang Pisheh, and Seyed Majdeddin Mir
Mohammad Hosseini . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 355
Water Balance and Effectiveness of Mineral Landfill Covers –
Results of Large Lysimeter Test-Fields
Wolf Ulrich Henken-Mellies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 369

A Retention Curve Prediction for Unsaturated Clay Soils

Mehrez Jamei, H. Guiras, and N. Mokni . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 377

Unsaturated-Zone Leaching and Saturated-Zone Mixing

Model in Heterogeneous Layers
Samuel S. Lee . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 387

Prediction of SWCC for Coarse Soils Considering Pore Size

Changes
Xu Li and Limin Zhang . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 401
 Contents XI

The Influence of the Pore Fluid on Desiccation of a

Deformable Porous Material
Hervé Péron, Liangbo Hu, Tomasz Hueckel, and Lyesse Laloui . . . . . . . . . 413

Determination of the Soil Water Retention Curve and the

Unsaturated Hydraulic Conductivity from the Particle Size
Distribution
Alexander Scheuermann and Andreas Bieberstein . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 421

Part VII Field Applications

Earthquake-Induced Mudflow Mechanism from a Viewpoint

of Unsaturated Soil Dynamics
Motoki Kazama and Toshiyasu Unno . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 437

Plate-Load Tests on an Unsaturated Lean Clay

Juan Carlos Rojas, Luis Mauricio Salinas, and Claudia Sejas . . . . . . . . . . 445

Selfsealing Barriers of Clay/Mineral Mixtures. The SB

Project at the Mont Terri Rock Laboratory
Tilmann Rothfuchs, Rüdiger Miehe, Norbert Jockwer, and Chun-Liang
Zhang . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 453
Preferential Water Movement in Homogeneous Soils
Alexander Scheuermann and Andreas Bieberstein . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 461
Compaction Properties of Agricultural Soils
Anh-Minh Tang, Yu-Jun Cui, Javad Eslami, and Pauline
Défossez-Berthoud . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 475
Bearing Capacity of Model Footings in Unsaturated Soils
Sai K. Vanapalli and Fathi M.O. Mohamed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 483
Influence of Soil Suction on Trench Stability
Valerie Whenham, Monika De Vos, Christian Legrand, Robert Charlier,
Jan Maertens, and Jean-Claude Verbrugge . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 495

Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 503