On Unsaturated Soil Mechanics – Personal Views on Current Research

  • Pande G
  • Pietruszczak S
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This paper presents the authors’ personal views on current research being conducted by various research groups around the world in the broad area of mechanics of unsaturated geomaterials in general and soils in particular. The topic is of interest to a wide spectrum of scientists and engineers working in diverse areas such as geology and geophysics, powder technology, agricultural, petroleum, chemical, geotechnical, civil, environmental and nuclear engineering. Even if we restrict ourselves to civil, geotechnical and environmental engineering, it is noted that a plethora of hypotheses as well as a number of empirical and semi-empirical relations have been introduced for describing the mechanics of unsaturated porous media. However, many of these proposed advances as well as methods of testing may lack sound theoretical basis.

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Pande, G. N., & Pietruszczak, S. (2015). On Unsaturated Soil Mechanics – Personal Views on Current Research. Studia Geotechnica et Mechanica, 37(3), 73–84. https://doi.org/10.1515/sgem-2015-0035

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