An experimental investigation on the water retention behaviour of a silty soil for the computation of the lateral earth thrust on a retaining wall

Gianluca Speranza; Alessio Ferrari; Maxime Pousse; Lyesse Laloui

doi:10.1051/e3sconf/20199207011

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Issue		E3S Web Conf. Volume 92, 2019 7^th International Symposium on Deformation Characteristics of Geomaterials (IS-Glasgow 2019)


Article Number		07011
Number of page(s)		6
Section		Behaviour of Unsaturated Geomaterials
DOI		https://doi.org/10.1051/e3sconf/20199207011
Published online		25 June 2019

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[1] G. A. Siemens, Thirty-ninth Canadian Geotechnical Colloquium: Unsaturated Soil Mechanics: Bridging the Gap Between Research and Practice. Canadian Geotechnical Journal, 55.7, pp 909-927, (2017) [CrossRef] [Google Scholar]

[2] A. Harris, A.J. Bond, Decoding Eurocodes, CRC Press, (2006) [Google Scholar]

[3] A. C. Farulla C., A. Battiato, A. Ferrari, The void ratio dependency of the retention behaviour for a compacted clay, in Unsaturated Soils-Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Unsaturated Soils; Barcelona; Spain; 6-8 September 2010, vol.1, pp. 417-422, (2010). [Google Scholar]

[4] N. Lu, W. J. Likos, Unsaturated Soil Mechanics. Wiley, (2004) [Google Scholar]

[5] D. G Fredlund,. H. Rahardjo, H. Rahardjo, Soil mechanics for unsaturated soils. John Wiley & Sons, (1993) [CrossRef] [Google Scholar]

[6] F. Vahedifard, B. A. Leshchinsky, K. Mortezaei, N. Lu, Active earth pressures for unsaturated retaining structures. Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering, 141.11, (2015) [CrossRef] [Google Scholar]

[7] J. P. Sahoo, R. Ganesh, International Congress and Exhibition" Sustainable Civil Infrastructures: Innovative Infrastructure Geotechnology pp. 1-19, (2017) [Google Scholar]

[8] M. Nuth, L. Laloui, Effective stress concept in unsaturated soils: clarification and validation of a unified framework. International journal for numerical and analytical methods in Geomechanics, 32.7, 771-801, (2008) [Google Scholar]

[9] W. R. Gardner, Some steady state solutions of the unsaturated moisture flow equation with application to evaporation from a water table, Soil Science 11, pp 215-232, (1958) [Google Scholar]

[10] F. Geiser, Ph. D. thesis, Comportement mécanique d’un limon non saturé étude expérimentale et modélisation constitutive, (1999) [Google Scholar]

[11] A. Tarantino, L. Mongiovì, Design and construction of a tensiometer for direct measurement of matric suction. Proceedings 3^rd International Conference on Unsaturated Soils, pp 319-324, (2002) [Google Scholar]

[12] A. Tarantino, L. Mongiovi, Calibration of tensiometer for direct measurement of matric suction, Géotechnique 53.1, (2003) [CrossRef] [Google Scholar]

[13] S.D.N. Lourenco, D. Gallipoli, D.G. Toll, C.E. Augarde, and F.D. Evans. A new procedure for the determination of soil water retention curves by continuous drying using high-suction tensiometers Canadian Geotechnical Journal, 48.2, pp 327-335, (2011) [CrossRef] [Google Scholar]

[14] S.D.N. Lourenco, D. Gallipoli, D.G. Toll, F.D. Evans, G.M. Medero. Determination of the Soil Water Retention Curve with Tensiometers, in Schanz, T. (Ed.), Experimental Unsaturated Soil Mechanics. Springer-Verlag, Berlin, pp. 95-102, (2007) [CrossRef] [Google Scholar]

[15] A Ferrari, V. Favero, P. Marschall, L. Laloui, Experimental analysis of the water retention behavior of shales. International Journal of Rock Mechanics & Mining Sciences, 72, pp 61-70, (2014) [CrossRef] [Google Scholar]

[16] M. Van Genuchten, A closed-form equation for predicting the hydraulic conductivity of unsaturated soils. Soil science society of America journal, 44.5, pp. 892-898, (1980) [CrossRef] [Google Scholar]