The strength and deformation properties of tailing materials are strongly affected by their hydromechanical history including the cycles desiccation re-saturation they undergo due to often layered deposition process. current study reviews fundamental characteristics some commonly used constitutive models for partially saturated soils, namely Barcelona Basic Model (BBM), Glasgow Coupled (GCM), a...

expansive soils are of the kind the volume of which will be changed to extremes by being exposed to varying conditions of moisture. this volume change is a serious menace to structures built on these types of soils. throughout the present research the potential of volume change in these soils was investigated when exposed to the phenomenon of wetting and drying. for the purpose, samples of a st...