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An insight into the water retention properties of compacted clayey soils / E. Romero in Géotechnique, Vol. 61 N° 4 (Avril 2011) 

Public ISBD [article]  in Géotechnique > Vol. 61 N° 4 (Avril 2011) . - pp. 313–328 Titre : An insight into the water retention properties of compacted clayey soils Type de document : texte imprimé Auteurs : E. Romero, Auteur ; G. Della Vecchia, Auteur ; C. Jommi, Auteur Année de publication : 2011 Article en page(s) : pp. 313–328 Note générale : Génie Civil Langues : Anglais (eng) Mots-clés : Laboratory  tests  Suction  Partial  saturation  Fabric/Structure  of  soils  Clays  Compaction Index. décimale : 624 Constructions du génie civil et du bâtiment. Infrastructures. Ouvrages en terres. Fondations. Tunnels. Ponts et charpentes Résumé : Experimental data from different testing methodologies on different compacted clayey soils, with dominant bimodal pore size distribution, are presented and analysed, to provide a comprehensive picture of the evolution of the aggregated fabric along hydraulic and mechanical paths. Fabric changes are analysed both from the porous network viewpoint, by means of careful mercury intrusion porosimetry investigation, and from the soil skeleton viewpoint, by quantifying swelling and shrinkage of the aggregates in an environmental scanning electron microscopy study. The consequences of the aggregated fabric evolution on the water retention properties of compacted soils are analysed and discussed. A new model for water retention domain is proposed, which introduces a dependence of the intra-aggregate pore volume on water content. The model succeeds in tracking correctly the evolution of the hydraulic state of the different soils investigated along generalised hydromechanical paths. The proposed approach brings to light coupling between intra-aggregate and inter-aggregate pores in the retention properties of compacted clayey soils. Dependence of the air entry and the air occlusion values on swelling and shrinking of aggregates, besides void ratio, is introduced and discussed. DEWEY : 624.15 ISSN : 0016-8505 En ligne : http://www.icevirtuallibrary.com/content/article/10.1680/geot.2011.61.4.313 [article] An insight into the water retention properties of compacted clayey soils [texte imprimé] / E. Romero, Auteur ; G. Della Vecchia, Auteur ; C. Jommi, Auteur . - 2011 . - pp. 313–328. Génie Civil Langues : Anglais (eng) in Géotechnique > Vol. 61 N° 4 (Avril 2011) . - pp. 313–328 Mots-clés : Laboratory  tests  Suction  Partial  saturation  Fabric/Structure  of  soils  Clays  Compaction Index. décimale : 624 Constructions du génie civil et du bâtiment. Infrastructures. Ouvrages en terres. Fondations. Tunnels. Ponts et charpentes Résumé : Experimental data from different testing methodologies on different compacted clayey soils, with dominant bimodal pore size distribution, are presented and analysed, to provide a comprehensive picture of the evolution of the aggregated fabric along hydraulic and mechanical paths. Fabric changes are analysed both from the porous network viewpoint, by means of careful mercury intrusion porosimetry investigation, and from the soil skeleton viewpoint, by quantifying swelling and shrinkage of the aggregates in an environmental scanning electron microscopy study. The consequences of the aggregated fabric evolution on the water retention properties of compacted soils are analysed and discussed. A new model for water retention domain is proposed, which introduces a dependence of the intra-aggregate pore volume on water content. The model succeeds in tracking correctly the evolution of the hydraulic state of the different soils investigated along generalised hydromechanical paths. The proposed approach brings to light coupling between intra-aggregate and inter-aggregate pores in the retention properties of compacted clayey soils. Dependence of the air entry and the air occlusion values on swelling and shrinking of aggregates, besides void ratio, is introduced and discussed. DEWEY : 624.15 ISSN : 0016-8505 En ligne : http://www.icevirtuallibrary.com/content/article/10.1680/geot.2011.61.4.313