Unsaturated Soils: Testing and Modelling

This Special Issue invites contributions dealing with the multi-scale laboratory and field testing, and monitoring of unsaturated soils, as well as the development and application of theoretical and computational tools to model the behaviour of the unsaturated soils and earthworks.

Indicative, broad topics include, but are not limited to

    Fundamental theory and constitutive modelling;
    Multiphysic and coupled phenomena modelling;
    Hydromechanical properties and behaviour;
    Advances in multiscale experimental evidence and techniques (laboratory and in situ);
    Development and application of numerical modelling tools for engineering analysis and design;
    Quantification of climatic effects and soil–vegetation–atmosphere models;
    Shrinking-swelling soils;
    Unsaturated soil mechanics for hazardous and nuclear waste repositories;
    Waste geomaterial behaviour and applications in geoengineering;
    Innovative ground improvement techniques including biomediated and bioinspired processes;
    Natural and human-made slope stability;
    Energy geotechnics;
    Multiscale subsurface water and contaminant transport modelling and monitoring;
    Natural attenuation and remediation of contaminated sites.