Effects of confining pressure on soil-water characteristic curves of sands

• Main Author: Feng, Yu Yun
• Other Authors: Leong Eng Choon
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2015
• Subjects: DRNTU::Engineering::Civil engineering
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/63759
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Conventional geotechnical research and structural designs are generally based on saturated soil mechanics. However, soil in the unsaturated condition is encountered most of time. In the past few decades, researchers have found an increasing demand on the study of the unsaturated soil behaviour. The...