Unsaturated Soil Mechanics

FOREWORD.
 
PREFACE.
 
SYMBOLS.
 
INTRODUCTION.
 
1 STATE OF UNSATURATED SOIL.
 
1.1 Unsaturated Soil Phenomena.
 
1.2 Scope and Organization of Book.
 
1.3 Unsaturated Soil in Nature and Practice.
 
1.4 Moisture, Pore Pressure, and Stress Profiles.
 
1.5 State Variables, Material Variables, and Constitutive Laws.
 
1.6 Suction and Potential of Soil Water.
 
Problems.
 
I FUNDAMENTAL PRINCIPLES.
 
2 MATERIAL VARIABLES.
 
2.1 Physical Properties of Air and Water.
 
2.2 Partial Pressure and Relative Humidity.
 
2.3 Density of Moist Air.
 
2.4 Surface Tension.
 
2.5 Cavitation of Water.
 
Problems.
 
3 INTERFACIAL EQUILIBRIUM.
 
3.1 Solubility of Air in Water.
 
3.2 Air-Water-Solid Interface.
 
3.3 Vapor Pressure Lowering.
 
3.4 Soil-Water Characteristic Curve.
 
Problems.
 
4 CAPILLARITY.
 
4.1 Young-Laplace Equation.
 
4.2 Height of Capillary Rise.
 
4.3 Rate of Capillary Rise.
 
4.4 Capillary Pore Size Distribution.
 
4.5 Suction Stress.
 
Problems.
 
II STRESS PHENOMENA.
 
5 STATE OF STRESS.
 
5.1 Effective Stress in Unsaturated Soil.
 
5.2 Hysteresis.
 
5.3 Stress Tensor Representation.
 
5.4 Stress Control by Axis Translation.
 
5.5 Graphical Representation of Stress.
 
Problems.
 
6 SHEAR STRENGTH.
 
6.1 Extended Mohr-Coulomb (M-C) Criterion.
 
6.2 Shear Strength Parameters for the Extended M-C Criterion.
 
6.3 Effective Stress and the M-C Criterion.
 
6.4 Shear Strength Parameters for the M-C Criterion.
 
6.5 Unified Representation of Failure Envelope.
 
Problems.
 
7 SUCTION AND EARTH PRESSURE PROFILES.
 
7.1 Steady Suction and Water Content Profiles.
 
7.2 Steady Effective Stress Parameter and Stress

NING LU, PhD, is Professor of Engineering at the Colorado School of Mines, where he teaches courses in soil mechanics and geotechnical engineering. He is the author of more than thirty papers published in peer-reviewed journals and serves as an editorial board member for the Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering. He is a member of the American Society of Civil Engineers and a lifetime member of the American Geophysical Union.
 
WILLIAM J. LIKOS, PhD, is Assistant Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Missouri--Columbia, where he teaches courses in soil mechanics and soil behavior. He is a former geotechnical engineer with the U.S. Geological Survey. He is the author of numerous papers regarding unsaturated and expansive soil behavior, an editorial board member for the Geotechnical Testing Journal, and a member of ASCE and the Clay Minerals Society.