Determination of unsaturated soil properties using cone penetrometer data

不饱和土壤几乎占地球陆地表面的40%。超过70%的澳大利亚陆地表面由非饱和土壤组成。提出的研究目的是提供一个方法，以一个现实的非饱和土的特点，在外地。这项研究的进展将立即适用于许多国家感兴趣的工程问题，包括水坝、堤防、基础、公路和机场。这项工作还将使澳大利亚和澳大利亚研究界受益，因为它将在澳大利亚发展一种新的专业知识，这可能会在科学界和工程界得到广泛的关注。

Unsaturated soils account for almost 40 percent of earth's land surface. Over 70 percent of Australia's land surface consists of unsaturated soils. The research proposed aims at providing a methodology for a realistic characterisation of unsaturated soils in the field. The developments in this research will be immediately applicable to many engineering problems of national interest including dams, embankments, foundations, highways and airfields. The work will also benefit Australia and the Australian research community through the development of a new expertise within Australia, which is likely to receive wide spread attention in both scientific and engineering communities.