Initial surmises from a field study of suction behaviour of tropical unsaturated residual soils
The generally unsaturated residual soils segment located above the groundwater table possess negative pore-water pressures. This amount of water content and resulting matric suction is an important geotechnical relationship for the unsaturated residual soil. This paper describes a field study that...
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Electronic Journal of Geotechnical Engineering
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| author | Singh, Harwant Kim Huat, Bujang Ali, Faisal Mariappan, Saravanan |
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| description | The generally unsaturated residual soils segment located above the groundwater table possess negative pore-water pressures. This amount of water content and resulting matric suction is an important geotechnical relationship for the unsaturated residual soil. This paper describes a
field study that examined the water content and matric suction in the unsaturated weathered residual soil over one of the commonly found soil/rock types constituting the tropical Malaysian terrain i.e. residual soil over sandstones at various weathering grades. The soilwater
characteristic curve (SWCC) was found to be characterized by two distinct curves, a wetting (sorption) curve and a drying (desorption) curve, each showing distinctive water
retention propensity. Higher weathering grades appear to have a higher suction for a given water content. |
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| spelling | upm-179982016-02-05T07:48:37Z http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/17998/ Initial surmises from a field study of suction behaviour of tropical unsaturated residual soils Singh, Harwant Kim Huat, Bujang Ali, Faisal Mariappan, Saravanan The generally unsaturated residual soils segment located above the groundwater table possess negative pore-water pressures. This amount of water content and resulting matric suction is an important geotechnical relationship for the unsaturated residual soil. This paper describes a field study that examined the water content and matric suction in the unsaturated weathered residual soil over one of the commonly found soil/rock types constituting the tropical Malaysian terrain i.e. residual soil over sandstones at various weathering grades. The soilwater characteristic curve (SWCC) was found to be characterized by two distinct curves, a wetting (sorption) curve and a drying (desorption) curve, each showing distinctive water retention propensity. Higher weathering grades appear to have a higher suction for a given water content. Electronic Journal of Geotechnical Engineering 2009 Article PeerReviewed Singh, Harwant and Kim Huat, Bujang and Ali, Faisal and Mariappan, Saravanan (2009) Initial surmises from a field study of suction behaviour of tropical unsaturated residual soils. Electronic Journal of Geotechnical Engineering, 14 (bund. B). pp. 1-8. ISSN 1089-3032 http://www.ejge.com/2009/Ppr0929/Abs0929.htm |
| spellingShingle | Singh, Harwant Kim Huat, Bujang Ali, Faisal Mariappan, Saravanan Initial surmises from a field study of suction behaviour of tropical unsaturated residual soils |
| title | Initial surmises from a field study of suction behaviour of tropical unsaturated residual soils |
| title_full | Initial surmises from a field study of suction behaviour of tropical unsaturated residual soils |
| title_fullStr | Initial surmises from a field study of suction behaviour of tropical unsaturated residual soils |
| title_full_unstemmed | Initial surmises from a field study of suction behaviour of tropical unsaturated residual soils |
| title_short | Initial surmises from a field study of suction behaviour of tropical unsaturated residual soils |
| title_sort | initial surmises from a field study of suction behaviour of tropical unsaturated residual soils |
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