Relationships between soil fabric and suction cycles in compacted swelling soils

Engineering Geology

Volumn 114, Issue 3-4, 2010, Pages 444-455

  Nowamooz, Hossein ^a,b   Masrouri, Farimah ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE LORRAINE   (France)

^b INSA DE STRASBOURG   (France)

Author keywords

Drying wetting cycles; Expansive soil; Mercury intrusion porosimetry test; Soil water retention curve

Indexed keywords

CLAYEY SOILS; COMPACTED SOIL; ELASTIC EQUILIBRIUM; EXPANSIVE SOILS; EXPERIMENTAL STUDIES; MACROPORES; MERCURY INTRUSION POROSIMETRY; MERCURY INTRUSION POROSIMETRY TESTS; MESO-PORES; MICROPORES; REMOULDED SAMPLES; SOIL FABRICS; SOIL WATER RETENTION CURVES; SWELLING SOILS; SWELLING STRAIN; VOID RATIOS; WETTING AND DRYING CYCLES; WETTING/DRYING CYCLES;

FLOW OF WATER; MERCURY (METAL); SHRINKAGE; SOIL MECHANICS; SOIL MOISTURE; UNDERWATER SOILS; WETTING;

FABRICS;

CLAY SOIL; ELASTICITY; EXPANSIVE SOIL; HYDROMECHANICS; POROSITY; RETENTION; SHRINKAGE; SOIL TEST; SOIL WATER; SUCTION; SWELLING; WETTING-DRYING CYCLE;

EID: 77955176283     PISSN: 00137952     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.enggeo.2010.06.005     Document Type: Article

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