Second Canadian Geotechnical Colloquium: Appropriate concepts and technology for unsaturated soils
Second Canadian Geotechnical Colloquium: Appropriate concepts and technology for unsaturated soils
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DOI:
10.1139/t79-011
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发表时间:
1979-02
影响因子:
3.6
通讯作者:
D. Fredlund
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作者:
D. Fredlund
A practical science has not been fully developed for unsaturated soils for two main reasons. First, there has been the lack of an appropriate science with a theoretical base. Second, there has been the lack of an appropriate technology to render engineering practice financially viable.This paper presents concepts that can be used to develop an appropriate engineering practice for unsaturated soils. The nature of an unsaturated soil is first described along with the accompanying stress conditions. The basic equations related to mechanical properties are then proposed. These are applied to practical problems such as earth pressure, limiting equilibrium, and volume change.An attempt is made to demonstrate the manner in which saturated soil mechanics must be extended when a soil is unsaturated. Two variables are required to describe the stress state of an unsaturated soil (e.g., (σ – ua) and (ua – uW). There is a smooth transition from the unsaturated case to the saturated case since the pore-air pressure bec...