Research Article

A Unified Elastoplastic Model of Unsaturated Soils Considering Capillary Hysteresis

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Simulated and measured results of wetting-collapse experiments on Pearl clay: (a) stress paths adopted; (b) relation between and ; (c) variation of total volumetric strain with matric suction during the wetting process D-E; (d) variation of the degree of saturation with net pressure for Path A-B-D-E. (data after Sun et al. (2007) [34]).
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