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Theoretical and Experimental Investigation into Unsaturated Soil Constitutive Relationship – Preliminary Studies

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Recent Advances in Modeling Landslides and Debris Flows

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This article presents the objective of current research to conduct experimental testing on the chosen set of granular materials composed of sand, silt and clay as the reference test materials used in the project, and to develop the advance constitutive model to predict the stress-strain behaviour of materials with diversified properties.

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    Aleksandra Jakubczyk, Xia Li & Hai-Sui Yu

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Jakubczyk, A., Li, X., Yu, HS. (2015). Theoretical and Experimental Investigation into Unsaturated Soil Constitutive Relationship – Preliminary Studies. In: Wu, W. (eds) Recent Advances in Modeling Landslides and Debris Flows. Springer Series in Geomechanics and Geoengineering. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-11053-0_2

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