Within the context of immiscible biphasic flow in porous media, when nonwetting fluid invades pore spaces which are a priori saturated with wetting fluid, capillary forces dominate if network is formed by fine-grained soils. Owing to cohesion-less frictional behavior such soils, force–driven fracturing phenomenon has been put forward some researchers. Unlike purely mechanistic tensile mode-I th...

Improving our understanding of the relation between water content and seismic signatures unconsolidated superficial soils is an important objective in overall field hydrogeophysics. Current approaches to constrain vadose zone from data are based on computing ratio compressional shear wave velocities Vp/Vs. While this allows for detection pronounced changes saturation, such as groundwater table,...

The article presents the results of an experimental study water content effect on elastic properties a limestone specimen (Young’s modulus and Poisson’s ratio) during drying after its partial saturation. We first constructed diagrams saturation loss, then their basis we selected mode specimen. was subjected to uniaxial compression in range small reversible deformations. chose loading exclude fo...