Unsaturated constant water content triaxial compression tests with suction measurement, using an Imperial College tensiometer, and saturated consolidated undrained were conducted on reconstituted brickearth, a naturally unsaturated clayey silt from London. The results show that the effective stress can be applied to critical state line (CSL) normalized stiffness for brickearth but Bishop's vari...

In this study, closed-form solutions are presented for two classical problems: the load exerted on strip or circular trapdoors and stability of tunnel headings in purely cohesive soils, considering both case a constant undrained shear strength linear vertical profile. The based minor modification Gunn's lower-bound plasticity solution. According to comparative numerical stress analyses finite-e...

Solutions for the point force and line load suddenly applied in a linear elastic fluid-infiltrated porous solid are rederived in a manner that emphasizes the relation to solutions for the homogeneous diffusion equation. Specifically, the stress, displacement, and pore pressure due to instantaneovs and continuous injection of fluid mass are obtained. These are differentiated to yield solutions f...

This study focuses on investigation of the undrained shear strength unsaturated frozen silts prepared at varying initial thermal and hydraulic conditions. The degree saturation controls ice unfrozen water contents temperatures below depression point. properties soils are highly influenced by which is coupled with state soils. To evaluate silts, a series direct simple experiments were performed ...