Unsaturated Soils: Testing and Modelling, 2nd Edition
A special issue of Applied Sciences (ISSN 2076-3417). This special issue belongs to the section "Environmental Sciences".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 10 April 2025 | Viewed by 151
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Dear Colleagues,
This Special Issue invites contributions dealing with multi-scale laboratory and field testing and monitoring of unsaturated soils, as well as the development and application of theoretical and computational tools to model the behaviour of unsaturated soils and earthworks.
The topics for submission include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Fundamental theory and constitutive modelling;
- Multiphysics and coupled phenomena modelling;
- Hydromechanical properties and behaviour;
- Advances in multiscale experimental evidence and techniques (laboratory and in situ);
- Development and application of numerical modelling tools for engineering analysis and design;
- Quantification of climatic effects and soil–vegetation–atmosphere models;
- Shrinking-swelling soils;
- Unsaturated soil mechanics for hazardous and nuclear waste repositories;
- Waste geomaterial behaviour and applications in geoengineering;
- Innovative ground improvement techniques, including biomediated and bioinspired processes;
- Natural and human-made slope stability;
- Energy geotechnics;
- Multiscale subsurface water and contaminant transport modelling and monitoring;
- Natural attenuation and remediation of contaminated sites.
Prof. Dr. Maria Mavroulidou
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- fundamental theory and constitutive modelling
- multiphysics and coupled phenomena modelling
- hydromechanical properties and behaviour
- advances in multiscale experimental evidence and techniques (laboratory and in situ)
- development and application of numerical modelling tools for engineering analysis and design
- quantification of climatic effects and soil–vegetation–atmosphere models
- shrinking-swelling soils
- unsaturated soil mechanics for hazardous and nuclear waste repositories
- waste geomaterial behaviour and applications in geoengineering
- innovative ground improvement techniques, including biomediated and bioinspired processes
- natural and human-made slope stability
- energy geotechnics
- multiscale subsurface water and contaminant transport modelling and monitoring
- natural attenuation and remediation of contaminated sites
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