Abstract: Poisson’s ratio is an elastic property needed as input in a wide range of geotechnical engineering applications. Despite experimental evidence, there is currently no model in the literature to explicitly account for the ...

Abstract: Effective stress is a critical factor controlling the mechanical behavior of unsaturated soils. There has been an increasing interest toward fundamental and applied research on emerging applications that involve unsaturated ...

Abstract: The thermal conductivity function (TCF) is an important constitutive function establishing the thermal conductivity–water content relationship in unsaturated soils. The existing TCFs do not account for the effects of ...

Abstract: This study presents an analytical framework to estimate the change in ultimate bearing capacity of energy piles in unsaturated fine-grained soils under drained mechanical loading conditions after drained heating. The ...

Abstract: Near-surface soils in geotechnical and geoenvironmental applications are often unsaturated, and natural or imposed changes in temperature may lead to a softening effect at constant suction that causes a change in stiffness. ...