Abstract: In recent years, several empirical and semiempirical relationships have been proposed to predict the small-strain shear modulus of unsaturated fine-grained soils along different hydraulic and mechanical loadings paths. ...

Abstract: This article presents an experimental laboratory study on the effect of plastic compression and stress history on the small strain shear modulus, Gmax, of unsaturated soils. In previous studies, most of the experiments for ...

Abstract: For geotechnical systems involving complex behaviors and significant uncertainties, metamodeling-based reliability methods based on fixed designs of experiment (passive metamodeling methods) are frequently applied. However, ...