Unsaturated Soil Mechanics [Hardcover]

Unsaturated Soil Mechanics is the first book to provide a comprehensive introduction to the fundamental principles of unsaturated soil mechanics.
* Offers extensive sample problems with an accompanying solutions manual.
* Brings together the rapid advances in research in unsaturated soil mechanics in one focused volume.
* Covers advances in effective stress and suction and hydraulic conductivity measurement.

FOREWORD xvii

PREFACE xix

SYMBOLS xxi

INTRODUCTION 1

1 STATE OF UNSATURATED SOIL 3

1.1 Unsaturated Soil Phenomena 3

1.1.1 Definition of Unsaturated Soil Mechanics 3

1.1.2 Interdisciplinary Nature of Unsaturated Soil Mechanics 4

1.1.3 Classification of Unsaturated Soil Phenomena 6

1.2 Scope and Organization of Book 8

1.2.1 Chapter Structure 8

1.2.2 Geomechanics and Geo-environmental Tracks 11

1.3 Unsaturated Soil in Nature and Practice 12

1.3.1 Unsaturated Soil in Hydrologic Cycle 12

1.3.2 Global Extent of Climatic Factors 12

1.3.3 Unsaturated Zone and Soil Formation 13

1.3.4 Unsaturated Soil in Engineering Practice 18

1.4 Moisture, Pore Pressure, and Stress Profiles 20

1.4.1 Stress in the Unsaturated State 20

1.4.2 Saturated Moisture and Stress Profiles: Conceptual Illustration 21

1.4.3 Unsaturated Moisture and Stress Profiles: Conceptual Illustration 22

1.4.4 Illustrative Stress Analysis 23

1.5 State Variables, Material Variables, and Constitutive Laws 26

1.5.1 Phenomena Prediction 26

1.5.2 Head as a State Variable 28

1.5.3 Effective Stress as a State l$