Abstract: In the past 15 years, different researches have shown that the effective-stress approach represents a simple and precise way to generate fully coupled constitutive models for unsaturated soils. This is so because the ...

Abstract: Porous models are built using the current pore-size distribution of the material and can reproduce the phenomenon of hysteresis during wetting–drying cycles. The term current pore-size distribution means that the size of ...

Abstract: Tepetate is a common material in central Mexico, which is frequently used in the construction industry. It is extracted from natural sites and commercialized without alteration. In general, it is used to construct backfills. ...