Matric Suction and Volume Characteristics of Compacted Clay Soil under Drying and Wetting Cycles
- Submitting institution
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University of Durham
- Unit of assessment
- 12 - Engineering
- Output identifier
- 124427
- Type
- D - Journal article
- DOI
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10.1520/GTJ20170310
- Title of journal
- Geotechnical Testing Journal
- Article number
- -
- First page
- 464
- Volume
- 43
- Issue
- 2
- ISSN
- 01496115
- Open access status
- Not compliant
- Month of publication
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- Year of publication
- 2019
- URL
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https://doi.org/10.1520/GTJ20170310
- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
- No
- Criminology
- No
- Interdisciplinary
- No
- Number of additional authors
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3
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
- No
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
- The first results are reported from a new apparatus developed at Durham University that provides a faster and more complete method of measurement of water retention behaviour. Such behaviour is essential to categorise unsaturated soil behaviour for engineering practice. The volume change response is shown to be highly anisotropic and hysteretic, even though wetting/drying produces an isotropic stress change. The apparatus, and the tensiometer on which it is based, is now supplied commercially by Durham Geo-Technologies (www.durhamgeotech.com) with equipment now in use in laboratories in Australia, Brazil, Hong Kong, India, Portugal and UK.
- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
- No
- English abstract
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