Fundamentals of unsaturated soil modelling: Have we got it right?

  • D. Sheng*
  • , A. Zhou
  • *Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

An unsaturated soil is not a special type of soil, rather a state of the soil. All soils can be unsaturated with water. There are many concepts specifically related to constitutive models for unsaturated soils, e.g., suction, net stress, apparent consolidation, loading-collapse yield surface, suction-increase yield surface, etc. These concepts are not always well understood and also seem to make unsaturated soils very special. This paper gives a critical review of these concepts, in an attempt to clarify some common confusion in constitutive modelling of unsaturated soils.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationExperimental and Applied Modeling of Unsaturated Soils - Proceedings of the 2010 GeoShanghai International Conference
Pages104-118
Number of pages15
Edition202 GSP
DOIs
StatePublished - 2010
Externally publishedYes
Event2010 GeoShanghai International Conference - Experimental and Applied Modeling of Unsaturated Soils - Shanghai, China
Duration: 3 Jun 20105 Jun 2010

Publication series

NameGeotechnical Special Publication
Number202 GSP
ISSN (Print)0895-0563

Conference

Conference2010 GeoShanghai International Conference - Experimental and Applied Modeling of Unsaturated Soils
Country/TerritoryChina
CityShanghai
Period3/06/105/06/10

Keywords

  • Constitutive models
  • Models
  • Unsaturated soils

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