| Issue |
E3S Web Conf.
Volume 9, 2016
3rd European Conference on Unsaturated Soils – “E-UNSAT 2016”
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| Article Number | 11005 | |
| Number of page(s) | 6 | |
| Section | Water Retention Properties | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/e3sconf/20160911005 | |
| Published online | 12 September 2016 | |
Modelling of the water retention characteristic of deformable soils
1 School of Computing, Science & Engineering, University of Salford, Manchester M5 4WT, UK
2 Centre for Geotechnical and Materials Modeling, University of Newcastle, NSW 2308, Australia
3 School of Engineering, University of Durham, UK
a Corresponding author: y.wang@salford.ac.uk
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.
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