Objetivo Unsaturated conditions (where soil pores are partly filled with and partly filled with air) occur widely both in natural soils and fills, where soil is used as a construction material. The hydro-mechanical behaviour of unsaturated soils is considerably more complex than that of saturated soils, and understanding within unsaturated soil mechanics lag considerably behind the state of-the-art in saturated soil mechanics. This is a significant limitation, because the hydro-mechanical behaviour of unsaturated soils is crucial to many applications in civil engineering (e.g. damage to structures founded on unsaturated soils and performance of flood embankments and earth dams), the nuclear industry (design of underground waste repositories), geohazards engineering (slope instabilities) and geo-environmental engineering (pollution migration and containment).The first objective of the proposed Network on Mechanics of Unsaturated Soils for Engineering is to generate an unrivalled database of suction-controlled experimental data on the engineering behaviour of different categories of unsaturated soils, including complex soils such as expansive clays and cemented soils. Experimental results will be used in the development and validation of improved constitutive models accounting for complex aspects of behaviour. Constitutive models will be implemented in FE programs and this will form part of a process of developing improved numerical capabilities for analysing coupled boundary value problems. The final objective is to demonstrate and validate the application of the constitutive and numerical modelling capabilities to a range of practical problems by simulating case histories and field trials. A particular feature of the Network is benchmarking of laboratory techniques, constitutive models and FE codes i.e. investigating the robustness of a particular approach by showing whether the same results are achieved by different teams or using different procedures, models or code... Ámbito científico natural sciencescomputer and information sciencesdatabaseshumanitieshistory and archaeologyhistoryengineering and technologyenvironmental engineeringgeological engineeringengineering and technologycivil engineeringnatural sciencesearth and related environmental sciencesenvironmental sciencespollution Palabras clave Boundary Value Problems in Unsaturated Soil Geohazards Geotechnical Engineering Nuclear Waste Disposal Soil Testing Unsaturated Soil Mechanics Programa(s) FP6-MOBILITY - Human resources and Mobility in the specific programme for research, technological development and demonstration "Structuring the European Research Area" under the Sixth Framework Programme 2002-2006 Tema(s) MOBILITY-1.1 - Marie Curie Research Training Networks (RTN) Convocatoria de propuestas FP6-2002-MOBILITY-1 Consulte otros proyectos de esta convocatoria Régimen de financiación RTN - Marie Curie actions-Research Training Networks Coordinador UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW Aportación de la UE Sin datos Dirección University Avenue GLASGOW Reino Unido Ver en el mapa Enlaces Sitio web Opens in new window Coste total Sin datos Participantes (5) Ordenar alfabéticamente Ordenar por aportación de la UE Ampliar todo Contraer todo UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI TRENTO Italia Aportación de la UE Sin datos Dirección Via Belenzani 12 TRENTO Ver en el mapa Enlaces Sitio web Opens in new window Coste total Sin datos ECOLE NATIONALE DES PONTS ET CHAUSSEES Francia Aportación de la UE Sin datos Dirección 6, Avenue Blaise Pascal MARNE-LA-VALLEE Ver en el mapa Enlaces Sitio web Opens in new window Coste total Sin datos UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI NAPOLI FEDERICO II Italia Aportación de la UE Sin datos Dirección Corso Umberto 1 NAPOLI Ver en el mapa Enlaces Sitio web Opens in new window Coste total Sin datos UNIVERSITY OF DURHAM Reino Unido Aportación de la UE Sin datos Dirección Old Elvet DURHAM Ver en el mapa Enlaces Sitio web Opens in new window Coste total Sin datos UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE CATALUNYA España Aportación de la UE Sin datos Dirección Jordi Girona, 31 BARCELONA Ver en el mapa Enlaces Sitio web Opens in new window Coste total Sin datos