Geotechnical Engineering Journal of the SEAGS & AGSSEA
Vol. 50 No. 1 March 2019 ISSN 0046-5828

Special Issue in Unsaturated Soils – Testing, Modelling and Applications

Editors: Eng-Choon Leong & Hossam Abuel-Naga

Sponsored by: Asian Institute of Technology

Contents and Abstracts

Water Retention Characteristics of Swelling Clays
by Kannan R. Iyer and D. N. Singh

Water Retention and Unsaturated Hydraulic Behaviors of a Biochar-modified Silt
By Abraham C.F. Chiu, Y. Xiao and B. Qiao

Simplified Model for Heat Transfer in Unsaturated Soils Considering a Nonisothermal Thermal Conductivity Function
By R.A. Samarakoon, and J.S. McCartney

A Simple Approach to Monitor Soil Moisture Dynamic in Vapour Equilibrium Cell
By Y. Lu, Z. Shang, Hamayon Tokhi and Hossam Abuel-Naga

A Classification Tree Guide to Soil-water Characteristic Curve Test for Soils with Bimodal Grain-size Distribution
By L. Zou and E.C. Leong

Backpressure Saturation Effects on the Mechanical Behaviour of a Quasi-Saturated Compacted Residual Soil
By G.G. Carnero-Guzman and F.A.M. Marinho

Induced and Inherent Anisotropies of Saturated and Unsaturated Soil Shear Properties
By H. Toyota, B. N. Le and S. Takada

Probability and Statistics Approach for Determining Pore Size Distribution of Coarse-Grain Soil
By R. Kitamura and K. Sako

Elastoplastic Modelling of Hydro-mechanical Behaviour of Unsaturated Soils
By J.R. Zhang, D.A. Sun and W.J. Sun

Interpretation of Desiccation Soil Cracking in the Framework of Unsaturated Soil Mechanics
By H. Al-Dakheeli and R. Bulut

Field Response of an Instrumented Dyke subjected to Rainfall
By A. Jotisankasa, S. Pramusandi, S. Nishimura and S. Chaiprakaikeow

Simplified Shear Deformation Method for Analysis of Mechanical Behavior of a Single Pile in Expansive Soils
By Y. Liu and S.K. Vanapalli

Validation of Foundation Design Method on Expansive Soils
By K.C. Chao and J.D. Nelson

Published: 2019-03-31

A Simple Approach to Monitor Soil Moisture Dynamic in Vapour Equilibrium Cell

Yi Lu, Zhi Shang, Hamayon Tokhi, Hossam Abuel-Naga

23-27

Field Response of an Instrumented Dyke subjected to Rainfall

A. Jotisankasa, S. Pramusandi, S. Nishimura, S. Chaiprakaikeow

81-91

Validation of Foundation Design Method on Expansive Soils

Kuo Chieh Chao, Ph.D., P.E., John D. Nelson, Ph.D., P.E., D.GE

103-111