Unsaturated Soil Mechanics for Sustainable Urban Living
Impact of Climate
Slope Stability
Effect of Rainfall on Tree Stability
Preventive Measures
Unsaturated Soil Mechanics
Soil Water Characteristic Curve
Permeability Function for Unsaturated Soil
Shear Strength for Unsaturated Soil
Seepage Analyses
Stability Analyses
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Unsaturated Soil Mechanics

   

First and second textbooks on unsaturated soil mechanics

Natural condition of unsaturated soils (soil above groundwater table), Fredlund and Rahardjo 1993

Phase diagram and elements of unsaturated soil, Fredlund and Rahardjo 1993

 Principles or equations of saturated and unsaturated soil

Equation (3) Fredlund and Morgenstern 1977; Equation (5) Terzhagi 1943; Equation (7) Darcy 1856; Equation (9) Richards 1931; Equations (11 & 13) Bishop 1955.

Stress state variables definitions

References

  1. Fredlund, D. G., Rahardjo, H. and Fredlund, M. D. (2012). Unsaturated soil mechanics in engineering practice. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., New York, 926 pages (ISBN 978-1-118-13359-0). doi
  2. Fredlund, D. G. and Rahardjo, H. (1993). Soil mechanics for unsaturated soils, John Wiley & Sons, New York, 517 pages (ISBN 0-471-85008-X). doi
  3. Fredlund, D. G. and Morgenstern, N. R. (1977). “Stress state variables for unsaturated soils”. Journal of the Geotechnical Engineering Division, 103(5), 447-466.
  4. Bishop, A. W. (1955). “The use of the slip circle in the stability analysis of slopes”. Géotechnique, 5(1), 7-17. doi
  5. Terzaghi, K. (1943). Theoretical soil mechanics, John Wiley and Sons, New York (ISBN 0-471-85305-4).
  6. Richards, L. A. (1931). “Capillary conduction of liquids through porous mediums”. Physics 1(5), 318–333. doi
  7. Darcy, H. (1856). Les Fontaines Publiques de la Ville de Dijon. Dalmont, Paris.Google books