Advanced Unsaturated Soil Mechanics
eBook - ePub

Advanced Unsaturated Soil Mechanics

Theory and Applications

  1. 520 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Advanced Unsaturated Soil Mechanics

Theory and Applications

About this book

Unsaturated soil is a three-phase material that is ubiquitous on the Earth's surface and exhibits complex behaviour, which becomes more complex in response to the Earth's changing climate and increasing engineering activities. This is because the former affects its moisture and temperature conditions significantly and the latter governs its stress state and suction condition. This book is designed to meet the increasing challenges of climate change and engineering activities by covering the mechanics and engineering of unsaturated soil in a logical manner. It comprises four major parts:

  1. Water retention and flow characteristics
  2. Shear strength and stiffness at various temperatures
  3. State-dependent elasto-plastic constitutive modelling
  4. Field monitoring and engineering applications

This second edition uniquely covers fundamental topics on unsaturated soil that are not covered in other similar books, including:

  • the state- dependency of soil- water retention behaviour and water permeability functions, such as dependence on engineering activities
  • small strain stiffness considering the influence of wetting- drying cycles and recent suction history, such as that due to climate change
  • suction effects on dilatancy and peak shear strength
  • cyclic thermal effects on soil behaviour
  • state- dependent elastoplastic constitutive modelling of monotonic and cyclic behaviour
  • engineering applications such as the South-to-North Water Transfer Project; an earthen landfill cover system devoid of geomembrane in the Xiaping landfill, Shenzhen; and a 15-m-deep multi- propped excavation in Tianjin, China

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Yes, you can access Advanced Unsaturated Soil Mechanics by Charles W.W. Ng,Chao Zhou,Junjun Ni in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Technology & Engineering & Civil Engineering. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half-Title Page
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright Page
  5. Table of Contents
  6. Preface to the Second Edition
  7. About the authors
  8. Acknowledgements
  9. List of notations
  10. List of nomenclature
  11. Chapter 1 Introduction
  12. Chapter 2 Measurement and control of suction
  13. Chapter 3 Retention characteristics and permeability functions for water and gas flows
  14. Chapter 4 Shear strength and behaviour
  15. Chapter 5 Shear stiffness and damping ratio
  16. Chapter 6 Thermal effects on soil behaviour and properties
  17. Chapter 7 Constitutive modelling of state-dependent behaviour of soils
  18. Chapter 8 Field monitoring and engineering applications
  19. References
  20. Author Index
  21. Subject Index