Objective
Unsaturated conditions, where pore in soil are partly filled with water and partly filled with air) occur widely both as natural soils and as fill materials. The hydro-mechanical behavior of unsaturated soils is considerably more complex than that of saturated soils. Overall, with unsaturated soils, there are problems associated with the testing methodologies, sampling and test duration.
Consequently, the understanding of unsaturated soil behavior lags behind the state-of-the-art of saturated soil mechanics. There is a great need to pull together the existing knowledge and data in a coordinated way. That is one of the key objectives of the EC-funded Marie Curie RTN called MUSE. The hydro-mechanical behavior of unsaturated soils is of practical importance; examples include damage to structures during wetting (caused by excessive rainfall), the performance of flood protection embankments and earth dams, the nuclear industry (design of underground waste depositories involves using unsaturated bentonite blocks.
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FP6-2005-MOBILITY-7
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IIF - Marie Curie actions-Incoming International Fellowships
Coordinator
BRASILIA-DF
Brazil
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