Impact of hydraulic hysteresis on the small-strain shear modulus of low plasticity soils

Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering

Volumn 138, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 1326-1333

  Khosravi, Ali ^a   McCartney, John S ^a  

^a University of Colorado at Boulder   (United States)

Author keywords

Constitutive model; Hydraulic hysteresis; Small strain shear modulus; Unsaturated soils

Indexed keywords

DEGREE OF SATURATIONS; ELASTO-PLASTIC CONSTITUTIVE RELATIONSHIPS; EMPIRICAL RELATIONSHIPS; EXPERIMENTAL MEASUREMENTS; HYDRAULIC HYSTERESIS; RESONANT-COLUMN DEVICES; SMALL-STRAIN SHEAR MODULUS; UNSATURATED SOIL;

CONSTITUTIVE MODELS; ELASTIC MODULI; HYSTERESIS; PLASTICITY; SHEAR STRAIN; SOILS; SUPERSATURATION; TESTING;

GEOLOGIC MODELS;

CONSTITUTIVE EQUATION; EFFECTIVE STRESS; ELASTOPLASTICITY; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; HYSTERESIS; NUMERICAL MODEL; PLASTICITY; SHEAR MODULUS; SHEAR STRAIN; SOIL MECHANICS; SOIL WATER; UNSATURATED MEDIUM; WATER RETENTION;

EID: 84879449913     PISSN: 10900241     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)GT.1943-5606.0000713     Document Type: Article

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