Advances in modelling hysteretic water retention curve in deformable soils

Computers and Geotechnics

Volumn 35, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 835-844

  Nuth, Mathieu ^a   Laloui, Lyesse ^a  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Hysteresis; Modelling; Retention curve; Unsaturated soils; Volume dependency

Indexed keywords

ABS RESINS; CAPILLARY FLOW; CONSTITUTIVE MODELS; DAMPING; DEFORMATION; ELASTICITY; HYSTERESIS; SOIL MOISTURE; SOILS; STIFFNESS; STRAIN; SUPERSATURATION; UNDERWATER SOILS;

MODELLING; RETENTION CURVE; UNSATURATED SOILS; VOLUME DEPENDENCY;

GEOLOGIC MODELS;

CONSTITUTIVE EQUATION; DEFORMATION; ELASTOPLASTICITY; HYSTERESIS; MODELING; SATURATION; STRESS-STRAIN RELATIONSHIP; UNSATURATED MEDIUM; VOID RATIO; WATER RETENTION;

EID: 53749092554     PISSN: 0266352X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compgeo.2008.08.001     Document Type: Article

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