Unsaturated Soils: Numerical and Theoretical Approaches (eBook)

Theoretical Approaches.- Conservation laws for three-phase partially saturated granular media.- Thermally-induced pore pressure generation in a nearly-saturated cementitious material.- Strain localisation simulation in non-isothermal multiphase geomaterials.- Non-linear behaviour in the deformation and localization analysis of unsaturated soil.- A process-oriented approach to compute THM problems in porous media - Part 1: Theoretical and informatics background.- The influence of hydraulic hysteresis on unsaturated soils FE analyses.- Effects of intergranular adhesive force on failure criterion of granular materials.- A bounding surface plasticity model for sands in an unsaturated state.- A unified framework for elastoplasticity of unsaturated soils: From capillary hysteresis to soil skeletal deformations.- State parameters for unsaturated soils, basic empirical concepts.- Investigations regarding soils below phreatic surface as unsaturated porous media.- Inspection of excess pressure propagation in the zone of gas entrapment below the capillary fringe.- A new concept for the numerical simulation and parameter identification of multiphase flow and transport processes in cohesive soils.- Statistical approach in soil-water characteristic curve modelling.- Generalized effective stress in unsaturated granulate by DEM analysis.- Grading entropy variation due to soil crushing.- Numerical Modelling.- A process-oriented approach to compute THM problems in porous media - Part 2: Numerical applications.- Numerical study to the desiccation cracks formation in mineral liners for landfills.- Modelling the behaviour of an earth and rockfill dam during construction and impoundment.- Numerical simulation of air loss during tunnel advance in compressed air tunnelling.- Centrifuge and numerical modeling of contaminant transport through the unsaturated silty soil.- Modeling of seepage flow through layered soils.- Hydro-mechanical behaviour of unsaturated buffer.- Applications of CODE-BRIGHT to thermal-hydro-mechanical experiments on clays.- An unsaturated soil seepage analysis for design of a soil cover system to reduce oxidation of a mine tailings deposit.