Arsenic is a metalloid frequently found in contaminated sites, especially in the soil. In this regard, soil contamination has attracted researchers’ attention because it affects soil suction, which is essential in unsaturated soil mechanics. Du...
The application of unsaturated soil mechanics in routine geotechnical engineering applications requires the determination of unsaturated soil properties. Unfortunately, the cost of direct measurement of unsaturated soil properties goes beyond the fin...
Soil suction plays an important role in governing the stability of slopes. Environmental sustainability could be jeopardized by hazards, such as slope failures (forest destruction, landscape alteration, etc.). However, the quantification of the sucti...
Ignoring the role of soil suction and implementing unsaturated soil mechanics when assessing slope stability in Indonesia is a common practice. One of the main reasons is due to the precognition that incorporating soil suction means using higher shea...
Soil–water characteristics curves (SWCC) have proved useful in estimating parameters used in modeling unsaturated geotechnical properties of soils including permeability and strength. Either saturation, gravimetric, and instantaneous and initia...
Accurate evaluation of unsaturated shear strength remains a significant challenge in geotechnical engineering because of the nonlinear interaction between matric suction and shear strength. Existing models often assume a linear contribution of suctio...
The current techniques utilized for estimating seasonal fluctuations in earthing system resistance, including artificial neural networks (ANNs) and correlation/correction factors, rely on resistance records, soil resistivity measurements, and meteoro...
Expansive soils exhibit directionally dependent swelling that traditional isotropic models fail to capture. This study investigates the anisotropic swelling characteristics of expansive soil with a medium swelling potential through the use of modifie...
Relating soil moisture content to soil suction, the soil–water characteristic curve (SWCC) represents an essential feature in unsaturated soil mechanics that enables estimation of different unsaturated soil property functions and modeling of th...
Clayey sand is widely distributed and commonly encountered in geotechnical engineering practice. To understand its bearing capacity behavior under unsaturated conditions, plate load tests are performed on sand–kaolin mixture samples with varyin...
Suction embedded plate anchors are widely used in deepwater mooring systems, which can withstand significant vertical loading. During the installation, the mooring chain is tensioned and causes the anchor to rotate, which is known as keying. With a l...
This study investigated the seismic performance and assessed the seismic fragility of an existing pentapod suction-bucket-supported offshore wind turbine, focusing on the amplification of earthquake ground motions. A simplified suction bucket–s...
This paper aims to estimate the stability of tunnel faces in inclined layered soils under steady unsaturated seepage conditions, comparing the degree of correlation between the stability of the tunnel face and the influence of three types of paramete...
The traditional Tempe cell can be used to adequately determine the soil water characteristic curve (SWCC) for soils that do not undergo significant volume change as matric suction is increased, such as coarse-grained material such as sand with a low...
The soil–water characteristic curve (SWCC) is a crucial input parameter for describing the distribution of soil moisture and water movement in various environmental and geotechnical challenges. It is widely recognized that the SWCC is controlle...
Embankments and other compacted earth structures are widely used in civil engineering, and their mechanical behaviour depends on the properties of compacted soils, which are often affected by unsaturated conditions and matric suction. This study pres...
The soil-water characteristic curve (SWCC) is an essential tool to determine hydraulic and mechanical properties of unsaturated soils. As an inherent influencing factor, soil texture controls the characteristics of SWCCs. Fractal theory can quantitat...
Vacuum preloading combined with prefabricated vertical drains (PVDs) has the potential to improve the soft sediments under water, however, its development is partly limited by the unclear understanding of the mechanism. This paper aims to extend the...
The soil water characteristic curve is highly related to soil physical characteristics, which may be affected by the soil erosion degree. To explore the applicability of the soil moisture characteristic curve model in northeastern China, two erosion...
There has been a proliferation of equations proposed to describe the unsaturated shear strength envelope going back to the 1970s. However, there have been limited studies to verify the suitability of one unsaturated shear strength equation over anoth...
The objective of this study is to estimate multiple-cycles of the soil-water characteristic curve (SWCC) using an innovative volumetric pressure plate extractor (VPPE), which is incorporated with a membrane and time domain reflectometry (TDR). The pr...
In this paper, a state-dependent, bounding surface plasticity model that simulates the behavior of unsaturated granular soils is presented. An unsaturated, soil mechanics-compatible elastoplastic response is adopted in which no part of the response o...
Rainfall infiltration is the primary triggering factor of slope instability. The process of rainfall infiltration leads to changes in the water content and internal stress of the slope soil, thereby affecting slope stability. The soil water retention...
Climate change is known to cause alterations in weather patterns and disturb the natural equilibrium. Changes in climatic conditions lead to increased environmental stress on embankments, which can result in slope failures. Due to wetting–dryin...
Due to the representation of a particular field condition of soil rather than the real time scenario from laboratory experiments, the selection of unsaturated permeability and flow parameters becomes challenging when conducting numerical modeling. Ke...
Estimation of unsaturated hydraulic conductivity could benefit many engineering or research problems such as water flow in the vadose zone, unsaturated seepage and capillary barriers for underground waste isolation. The unsaturated hydraulic conducti...
Stony soils are distributed all over the world. The study of their characteristics has gained importance lately due to their increasing use as agricultural soils. The effect that rock fragments exert on the soil hydraulic properties is difficult to m...
In the field of tunnels, the stability of tunnel faces is generally considered in dry, saturated and homogeneous soils. However, the actual condition of some soils has been found to be inhomogeneous, with unsaturated seepage. In this paper, an analyt...
Pore water pressure changes due to soil-atmospheric boundary interaction can significantly influence soil behaviour and can negatively affect the safety and stability of geotechnical structures. For example, prolonged rainfall events can lead to incr...
The rhizosphere is one of the major components in the soil–plant–atmosphere continuum which controls the flow of water from the soil into roots. Plant roots release mucilage in the rhizosphere which is capable of altering the physio-chemical properti...
Water infiltration in soil is a complex process that still requires appreciation of interactions among three phases (soil particles, water and air) to enable accurate estimation of water transport rates. To simulate this process, the Green–Ampt...
This study assessed the applicability of visible–near-infrared (vis-NIR) spectroscopy to predicting the water retention characteristics of forest soils in Japan, which vary widely owing to the presence of volcanic ash. Soil samples were collect...
In this article, the modeling of infiltration--induced landslides, in unsaturated soils using the radial basis function (RBF) method, is presented. A novel approach based on the RBF method is proposed to deal with the nonlinear hydrological process i...
Two main issues are addressed in this work. The first issue is environmental concerns about managing plastic waste on a large scale by promoting reuse with low energy requirements in the recycling processes. The second issue is the desiccation cracks...
This review provides a comprehensive overview of the closed-form expressions developed for estimating the soil water retention curve (SWRC) from 1964 to the present. Since the concept of the SWRC was introduced in 1907, numerous closed-form functions...
The shaft resistance of cast-in-place piles in permafrost regions is commonly estimated using the initial moisture content and frozen-soil strength parameters obtained during site investigation. However, concrete hydration heat disturbs the temperatu...
In general, the ultimate bearing capacity (UBC) of shallow foundations on unsaturated soils is characterized by the conventional shear strength (SS) parameters in which saturated theories are applied. However, in this case, it is clear that the found...
This study aims at furthering our understanding of the Modified Philip–Dunne Infiltrometer (MPDI), which is used to determine the saturated hydraulic conductivity Ks and the Green–Ampt suction head Ψ at the wetting front. We have deve...
An approach to estimate the behavior of stiffened rafts under column loads of a lightweight-reinforced concrete structure resting on expansive soils is presented in this paper. The analysis was conducted using the computer program SLAB97, which estim...
Uncertainty in soil hydraulic properties is a major source of hydrological and flood-modeling error, especially in data-scarce, heterogeneous arid soils. In ephemeral stream watersheds, infiltration strongly controls runoff generation and flash-flood...
Shear wave velocity is an important parameter for estimating soil properties used in analyzing the dynamic response of soil to seismic loading. This paper focuses on developing a model for predicting shear wave velocity in unsaturated soils. The mode...
The main objective of the study is to estimate the shear resistance mobilized on the slope surface under large deformation and to identify the failure mechanism of the landslide through the simulation model. The field investigations were carried out...
In highway slopes (HWS) constructed on high expansive clay soil (HECS), in situ moisture variation is an environmentally driven variable that can significantly impact the safety of the constructed soil. Electrical resistivity imaging (ERI) is a non-d...
Extreme rainfall is a common triggering factor of landslide disasters, for infiltration and pore water pressure propagation can reduce suction stress and shear strength at the slip surface. The subsurface hydrological model is an essential component...
Functional data are being used increasingly in recent years and in many environmental sciences, such as hydrology applied to agriculture. This means that the output, instead of a scalar variable represented by a spatial map, is given by a function. F...
A clean environment is an essential component of sustainable development, which is based on a comprehensive understanding of the behavior of water, soil, and air. The soil water retention (SWR) curve is a crucial function that describes how soil reta...
The soil–water characteristic curve (SWCC) is essential for understanding hydraulic behavior in geotechnical applications involving coarse granular materials. However, existing models often overlook the coupled effects of key factors. This stud...
Suction bucket foundation is a novel and cheaper foundation used in marine structures, such as offshore wind turbines, breakwater and oil platforms. Compared with a single bucket foundation, tetrapod bucket foundations can bear larger loads because o...
The soil-water retention curve (SWRC) is a key indicator characterizing soil water retention capacity. Biochar incorporation can affect the SWRC by altering soil pore structure and physicochemical properties. The SWRC of biochar-amended soils is infl...
Landslide events are among natural hazards with many fatalities and financial losses. Studies demonstrate that natural factors such as rainfall and human activities such as deforestation are important causes of triggering a landslide. In this study,...
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