Hydromechanical behaviour of a silty sand from a steep slope triggered by artificial rainfall: From unsaturated to saturated conditions

Canadian Geotechnical Journal

Volumn 50, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 28-40

  Casini, Francesca ^a,b   Serri, Victor ^a   Springman, Sarah M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Instability; Shallow landslide; Triaxial stress path tests; Unsaturated soil; Water retention curve

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPIC COMPRESSION; ARTIFICIAL RAINFALL; COMPACTION PARAMETERS; CONSOLIDATED DRAINED; DRY DENSITY; EFFECTIVE STRESS; EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATIONS; EXPOSED TO; HYDROMECHANICAL BEHAVIOUR; INITIAL VOID RATIOS; LASER DEVICE; MECHANICAL BEHAVIOUR; MICROSTRUCTURAL INVESTIGATION; NATURAL SOILS; RADIAL DEFORMATION; SATURATED CONDITIONS; SECOND-ORDER WORKS; SHALLOW LANDSLIDE; SILTY SANDS; SITU CONDITIONS; SOIL SPECIMENS; SOIL WATER RETENTION; STATIC COMPACTION; STEEP SLOPE; STRESS PATHS; STRESS RATIO; SWITZERLAND; TRIAXIAL STRESS PATH; UNDRAINED; UNIFIED FRAMEWORK; UNSATURATED CONDITION; UNSATURATED SOIL; VOID RATIOS; WATER PHASE; WATER RETENTION CURVE;

COMPACTION; MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; PLASMA STABILITY; SAND; SOILS; WATER CONTENT;

GEOLOGIC MODELS;

ANISOTROPY; COMPACTION; DRY DENSITY; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; GRAVIMETRY; HOMOGENEITY; HYDROMECHANICS; LANDSLIDE; MICROSTRUCTURE; RAINFALL; SATURATED MEDIUM; SILTY SOIL; SLOPE ANGLE; SOIL TEST; SOIL WATER; STRESS ANALYSIS; TRIAXIAL TEST; UNSATURATED MEDIUM; VOID RATIO; WATER RETENTION;

SWITZERLAND;

EID: 84874298463     PISSN: 00083674     EISSN: 12086010     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/cgj-2012-0095     Document Type: Article

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