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Unsaturated Soils - Behavior, Mechanics and Conditions (Paperback)
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Unsaturated Soils - Behavior, Mechanics and Conditions (Paperback)
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This compilation opens with an exploration of the vadose, or
unsaturated zone, which is of utmost importance as the nexus
between surface water and groundwater. It is the link between what
happens on the surface and what happens below, inside the aquifers.
As such, understanding this underground natural environment is
essential for the sustainable development of society. Due to the
complexities involved in considering the hysteretic response of the
Soil Water Characteristic Curve and its dependency on volume
changes, these two features are often ignored in numerical studies
of unsaturated soils. To facilitate their use in numerical
modeling, a model for the Soil Water Characteristic Curve equation
based on the bounding surface concept is proposed. The authors go
on to focus on the temperature distribution and water migration in
unsaturated soil, which is of significant importance because these
factors are related to the thermal-physical properties of soil. The
changes in these properties may cause disastrous engineering
problems such as the cracking of pavement, damage of structure
foundation and fracture of pipelines. Lastly, the book addresses
the measurement and expression of the mass chemical potential in
the presence of superficial layers induced by a complex structure.
By definition, the mass chemical potential of a constituent in a
soil represents the variation of the internal energy of the medium
when a unit mass of the constituent is transferred to a reference
state with the entropy, volume and mass of the other constituents
remaining constant.
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