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The Emergence of Unsaturated Soil Mechanics : Fredlund Volume.
This publication is an assemblage of selected papers that have been authored or co-authored by D.G. Fredlund. The substance of these papers documents the milestones of both the science of unsaturated soil mechanincs and the career of the author during his tenure as a faculty member in the Department...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Ottawa :
NRC Research Press,
2000.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- ""Cover page""; ""Publishing information""; ""Title page""; ""Copyright""; ""Contents""; ""Abstract""; ""Résumé""; ""Preface""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Part I Delwyn G. Fredlund
- An Appreciation""; ""Part II Stress State for Unsaturated Soils and the Measurement of Soil Suction""; ""Stress state variables for unsaturated soils""; ""The stress state for expansive soils""; ""On total, matric and osmotic suction""; ""Physico-chemical state variables for clay soils""; ""State-of-development in the measurement of soil suction""
- ""Background, theory, and research related to the use of thermal conductivity sensors for matric suction measurement""""Monitoring soil suction in an indoor test track facility""; ""Measuring negative pore-water pressures in a freezing environment""; ""Direct measurement of high soil suction""; ""Suction measurements on a Saskatchewan soil using a direct measurement, high suction sensor""; ""Suction measurements on a compacted till specimens and indirect filter paper calibration technique""; ""Part III Theoretical Framework for Unsaturated Soil Mechanics""
- ""Appropriate concepts and technology for unsaturated soils""""Theoretical context for understanding unsaturated residual soil behavior""; ""Soil mechanics principles that embrace unsaturated soils""; ""The scope of unsaturated soil mechanics: An overview""; ""Application of unsaturated soil mechanics for agricultural conditions""; ""From theory to the practice of unsaturated soil mechanics""; ""Equations for the soil-water characteristic curve""; ""Comparison of soil suction and one-dimensional consolidation characteristics of a highly plastic clay""
- ""Prediction of the soil-water characteristic curve from grain-size distribution and volume-mass properties""""Design of a knowledge-based system for unsaturated soil properties""; ""Part IV Shear Strength of Unsaturated Soils and its Application""; ""The shear strength of unsaturated soils""; ""Non-linearity of strength envelope for unsaturated soils""; ""A multistage triaxial test for unsaturated soils""; ""Determination of the shear strength parameters of an unsaturated soil using the direct shear test""; ""Shear strength characteristics of two saprolitic soils""
- ""A method for determination of phi b for statically compacted soils""""The relationship of the unsaturated soil shear strength to the soil-water characteristic curve""; ""Model for the prediction of shear strength with respect to soil suction""; ""Increase in strength due to suction for two Hong Kong soils""; ""Increase in factor of safety due to soil suction for two Hong Kong slopes""; ""Negative pore-water pressures in slope stability""; ""The stability of slopes with negative pore-water pressures""; ""Pore pressure parameters for unsaturated soils""