Description
This book focuses on the engineering properties of unsaturated widely graded soils and their influence on slope stability. This book characterizes the natural widely graded colluvial soils from macroscale, mesoscale, and microscale viewpoints, introduces the techniques for measuring hydro-mechanical properties for unsaturated widely graded colluvial soils, and clarifies the hydro-mechanical behavior and the failure mechanism of widely graded colluvial soils subjected to environmental loads. This book improves the understanding of rainfall-induced landslides on natural slopes. Researchers and engineers in the field of civil engineering can benefit from the book.
Table of Contents
Introduction.- Characterization of natural widely-graded colluvial soils.- Micro-porosity structures of widely-graded soils.- Techniques for measuring hydraulic properties for unsaturated soils.- Hydraulic properties for widely-graded soils.- A unified framework for unsaturated soils.- Mechanical behavior of widely-graded soils under low confining pressure.- Bimodal features for widely-graded soils.- Seepage analysis technique for unsaturated soils.- Assessing the stability of slopes composed by widely graded soil.
