<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p> This paper presents the authors’ personal views on current research being conducted by various research groups around the world in the broad area of mechanics of unsaturated geomaterials in general and soils in particular. The topic is of interest to a wide spectrum of scientists and engineers working in diverse areas such as geology and geophysics, powder technology, agricultural, petroleum, chemical, geotechnical, civil, environmental and nuclear engineering. Even if we restrict ourselves to civil, geotechnical and environmental engineering, it is noted that a plethora of hypotheses as well as a number of empirical and semi-empirical relations have been introduced for describing the mechanics of unsaturated porous media. However, many of these proposed advances as well as methods of testing may lack sound theoretical basis.</p></abstract>

This paper presents the authors’ personal views on current research being conducted by various research groups around the world in the broad area of mechanics of unsaturated geomaterials in general and soils in particular. The topic is of interest to a wide spectrum of scientists and engineers working in diverse areas such as geology and geophysics, powder technology, agricultural, petroleum, chemical, geotechnical, civil, environmental and nuclear engineering. Even if we restrict ourselves to civil, geotechnical and environmental engineering, it is noted that a plethora of hypotheses as well as a number of empirical and semi-empirical relations have been introduced for describing the mechanics of unsaturated porous media. However, many of these proposed advances as well as methods of testing may lack sound theoretical basis.

On Unsaturated Soil Mechanics – Personal Views on Current Research

Zienkiewicz Centre for Computational Engineering, Swansea University, Swansea, UK

Department of Civil Engineering, McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada

Studia Geotechnica et Mechanica

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This paper presents the authors’ personal views on current research being conducted by various research groups around the world in the broad area of mechanics...

On Unsaturated Soil Mechanics – Personal Views on Current Research

Published Online: Nov 17, 2015

Page range: 73 - 84

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/sgem-2015-0035

Keywords
unsaturated soil, suction, microstructure of saturation, constitutive relation

© by G.N. Pande

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

On Unsaturated Soil Mechanics – Personal Views on Current Research

Published Online: Nov 17, 2015

Page range: 73 - 84

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/sgem-2015-0035

Keywordsunsaturated soil, suction, microstructure of saturation, constitutive relation

© by G.N. Pande

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

Keywords
unsaturated soil, suction, microstructure of saturation, constitutive relation