Unsaturated soil is a three-phase material that is ubiquitous on the Earth’s surface and exhibits complex behaviour, which becomes more complex in response to the Earth’s changing climate and increasing engineering activities. This is because the former affects its moisture and temperature conditions significantly and the latter governs its stress state and suction condition. This book is designed to meet the increasing challenges of climate change and engineering activities by covering the mechanics and engineering of unsaturated soil in a logical manner. It comprises four major parts: Water retention and flow characteristics Shear strength and stiffness at various temperatures State-dependent elasto-plastic constitutive modelling Field monitoring and engineering applications This second edition uniquely covers fundamental topics on unsaturated soil that are not covered in other similar books, including: the state- dependency of soil- water retention behaviour and water permeability functions, such as dependence on engineering activities small strain stiffness considering the influence of wetting- drying cycles and recent suction history, such as that due to climate change suction effects on dilatancy and peak shear strength cyclic thermal effects on soil behaviour state- dependent elastoplastic constitutive modelling of monotonic and cyclic behaviour engineering applications such as the South-to-North Water Transfer Project; an earthen landfill cover system devoid of geomembrane in the Xiaping landfill, Shenzhen; and a 15-m-deep multi- propped excavation in Tianjin, China

Analytical and comprehensive, this state-of-the-art book, examines the mechanics and engineering of unsaturated soils, as well as explaining the laboratory and field testing and research that are the logical basis of this modern approach to safe construction in these hazardous geomaterials; putting them into a logical framework for civil engineerin

New theories and testing techniques related with Unsaturated Soil Mechanics have proven to be valuable tools to study a broad spectrum of geo-materials which includes rocks, rock fills, frozen soils and domiciliary solid wastes. These new theories and testing techniques have permitted the analysis of several traditional problems from a new perspective (e.g., swelling or collapsible soils and compacted soils or pavements materials), and they have also shown their efficiency to study new energy-related problems like CO2 sequestration and nuclear waste disposal. Advances in Unsaturated Soils is a collection of papers from the 1st Pan-American Conference on Unsaturated Soils organized in Cartagena de Indias, Colombia, in February 2013. The volume includes 76 research papers coming for all over the world, as well as 7 keynotes papers by well known international researchers. The contributions present a variety of topics including: • Advances in testing techniques • Unsaturated soil behavior • Constitutive modeling and microstructure • Numerical modeling • Geotechnical problems Advances in Unsaturated Soils is expected to become a useful reference to academics and professionals involved in Unsaturated Soil Mechanics.

GSP 148 contains 42 papers on unsaturated soil mechanics and environmental geotechnics that were presented at the GeoShanghai Conference, held in Shanghai, China, June 6-8, 2006.

GSP 99 contains 38 papers presented at sessions at Geo-Denver 2000, held in Denver, Colorado, August 5-8, 2000.

The collection includes selected, peer reviewed papers from the 2nd International Conference on Civil Engineering and Transportation (ICCET 2012) held October 27-28, 2012 in Guilin, China. Volume is indexed by Thomson Reuters CPCI-S (WoS). The 597 papers are grouped into the following chapters: Chapter 1: Geological, Geotechnical and Building Engineering, Chapter 2: Structural Engineering, Chapter 3: Reliability, Durability and Rehabilitation of Structures, Chapter 4: Tunnel, Subway and Underground Facilities, Chapter 5: Bridge and Road Engineering, Chapter 6: Coastal Engineering and Ocean Engineering, Chapter 7: Seismic Engineering, Chapter 8: Surveying and Detection Engineering, Cartography, Measurement and Geographic Information System, Chapter 9: Hydraulic and Fluid Engineering, Chapter 10: Heating, Gas Supply, Ventilation and Air Conditioning Works, Chapter 11: Natural and Technogenic Disasters Prevention and Mitigation, Chapter 12: Computer-Aided Design and Applications in Industry and Civil Engineering, Chapter 13: Engineering Management and Engineering Education.

GSP 147 contains 219 papers on unsaturated soil problems presented at the Fourth International Conference on Unsaturated Soils, held in Carefree, Arizona, April 2-6, 2006.

Unsaturated soil mechanics is now increasingly recognized as an integral part of mainstream soil mechanics, and the importance and relevance of unsaturated soil mechanics for the broad field of geotechnical engineering no longer needs to be emphasized. The two volumes making up Unsaturated soils include papers from the 4th Asia Pacific Confere

Measurement of saturated and near-saturated soil hydraulic conductivity. Application of the Borehole Permeameter. Methods and theory of unconfined infiltration measurements. Soil water content measurement by time-domain reflectometry. TRASE: a product history. Measurement of soil salinity. Measurement of matric potential. Survey of use of field methods for measuring soil hydraulic properties.

The objective of the collection from EBUILT-2016 Conference (Romania, 2016) is the presentation of latest researches and solutions in area of construction - from geotechnical engineering and structural reliability to design of transportation infrastructure, urban and rural planning. We hope this book will be useful for many engineers whose activity related with modern construction.