- Title
- Modelling of the water retention characteristic of deformable soils
- Creator
- Wang, Yu; Sheng, Daichao; Ross, Keith; Toll, David G.
- Relation
- 3rd European Conference on Unsaturated Soils (E-UNSA 2016). Proceedings of the 3rd European Conference on Unsaturated Soils [presented in E3s Web of Conferences, Vol. 9] (Paris, France 12-14 September, 2016)
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/e3sconf/20160911005
- Publisher
- EDP Sciences
- Resource Type
- conference paper
- Date
- 2016
- Description
- A recently proposed water retention model has been further developed for the application on unsaturated deformable soils. The physical mechanisms underpinning the water retention characteristic of soils was at first described in terms of traditional theories of capillarity and interfacial physical chemistry at pore level. Then upscaling to macroscopic level of material scale in terms of average volume theorem produces an analytical formula for the water retention characteristic. The methodology produces an explicit form of the water retention curve as a function of three state parameters: the suction, the degree-of-water-saturation and the void-ratio. At last, the model has been tested using experimental measurements.
- Subject
- water retention model; unsaturated soils; physical chemistry
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1339230
- Identifier
- uon:28205
- Identifier
- ISSN:2267-1242
- Rights
- © The Authors, published by EDP Sciences, 2016. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License 4.0, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
- Language
- eng
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