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Effects Of Hydrologic Variations On Hydraulic And Deformational Characteristics Of Unsaturated Soils, Majid Mahmoodabadi
Effects Of Hydrologic Variations On Hydraulic And Deformational Characteristics Of Unsaturated Soils, Majid Mahmoodabadi
Theses and Dissertations--Civil Engineering
Constitutive models that can provide useful insight into the deformational mechanism induced by hydrologic variations are vital for design and analysis of structures where unsaturated regime predominates. An accurate description of unsaturated soils’ behavior not only requires a vigorous constitutive model, but essentially is achievable using real-time mechanical (e.g. small-strain shear modulus) and hydrologic data sets. The main objective of this research was to develop a robust constitutive scheme that is compatible to quick fluctuations in hydrologic conditions.
The first step towards accomplishing this aim involved proposing a novel methodology to estimate the small-strain shear modules with respect to the …