| Microstructure and Fabric | |
| Influence of Relative Density and Clay Fraction on Soils Collapse | p. 3 |
| Microstructure Features in the Behaviour of Engineered Barriers for Nuclear Waste Disposal | p. 11 |
| Microstructure of Gypsiferous Crust and Its Importance to Unsaturated Soil Behaviour | p. 33 |
| Fabric Changes in Compacted London Clay Due to Variations in Applied Stress and Suction | p. 41 |
| Microstructure of a Lime Stabilised Compacted Silt | p. 49 |
| Measuring Suction | |
| Errors in Total Suction Measurements | p. 59 |
| Application of a Dew Point Method to Obtain the Soil Water Characteristic | p. 71 |
| A Comparative Study of Soil Suction Measurement Using Two Different High-Range Psychrometers | p. 79 |
| Determination of the Soil Water Retention Curve with Tensiometers | p. 95 |
| Tensiometer Development for High Suction Analysis in Laboratory Lysimeters | p. 103 |
| Strength and Dilatancy | |
| Dilatancy of Coarse Granular Aggregates | p. 119 |
| A Laboratory Investigation into the Effect of Water Content on the CBR of a Subgrade soil | p. 137 |
| Shear Strength Affected by Suction Tension in Unsaturated Fine Grained Soils? | p. 145 |
| Shear Strength Behaviour of Unsaturated Silty Soil | p. 153 |
| Experimental Investigation on the Time Dependent Behaviour of a Multiphase Chalk | p. 161 |
| Testing Unsaturated Soil for Plane Strain Conditions: A New Double Wall Biaxial Device | p. 169 |
| Influence of State Variables on the Shear Behaviour of an Unsaturated Clay | p. 179 |
| Effect of Capillary and Cemented Bonds on the Strength of Unsaturated Sands | p. 185 |
| Determining the Shear Strength of Unsaturated Silt | p. 195 |
| Factors Affecting Tensile Strength Measurement and Modified Tensile Strength Measuring Apparatus for Soil | p. 207 |
| The Tensile Strength of Compacted Clays as Affected by Suction and Soil Structure | p. 219 |
| Temperature Effects | |
| Modified Isochoric Cell for Temperature Controlled Swelling Pressure Tests | p. 229 |
| Some Aspects of the Effect of the Temperature on the Behaviour of Unsaturated Sandy Clay | p. 243 |
| Influence of Temperature on the Water Retention Curve of Soils. Modelling and Experiments | p. 251 |
| Thermo-Hydro-Mechanical Behaviour of Compacted Bentonite | p. 259 |
| Retention Curves of Two Bentonites at High Temperature | p. 267 |
| Volumetric Behaviour - Expansive Materials | |
| Experimental Study on Shrinkage Behaviour and Prediction of Shrinkage Magnitudes of Residual Soils | p. 277 |
| Assessment of Swelling Deformation of Unsaturated Kaolinite Clay | p. 285 |
| Suction and Collapse of Lumpy Spoilheaps in Northwestern Bohemia | p. 293 |
| Oedometer Creep Tests of a Partially Saturated Kaolinite Clay | p. 301 |
| Analysis of the Expansive Clay Hydration under Low Hydraulic Gradient | p. 309 |
| Moisture Effects on Argillaceous Rocks | p. 319 |
| Retention Behaviour | |
| Results from Suction Controlled Laboratory Tests on Unsaturated Bentonite - Verification of a Model | p. 329 |
| Variation of Degree of Saturation in Unsaturated Silty Soil | p. 337 |
| Mechanical Behaviour of Compacted Scaly Clay During Cyclic Controlled-Suction Testing | p. 345 |
| Prediction of Soil-Water Characteristic Curve Based on Soil Index Properties | p. 355 |
| Water Balance and Effectiveness of Mineral Landfill Covers - Results of Large Lysimeter Test-Fields | p. 369 |
| A Retention Curve Prediction for Unsaturated Clay Soils | p. 377 |
| Unsaturated-Zone Leaching and Saturated-Zone Mixing Model in Heterogeneous Layers | p. 387 |
| Prediction of SWCC for Coarse Soils Considering Pore Size Changes | p. 401 |
| The Influence of the Pore Fluid on Desiccation of a Deformable Porous Material | p. 413 |
| Determination of the Soil Water Retention Curve and the Unsaturated Hydraulic Conductivity from the Particle Size Distribution | p. 421 |
| Field Applications | |
| Earthquake-Induced Mudflow Mechanism from a Viewpoint of Unsaturated Soil Dynamics | p. 437 |
| Plate-Load Tests on an Unsaturated Lean Clay | p. 445 |
| Selfsealing Barriers of Clay/Mineral Mixtures. The SB Project at the Mont Terri Rock Laboratory | p. 453 |
| Preferential Water Movement in Homogeneous Soils | p. 461 |
| Compaction Properties of Agricultural Soils | p. 475 |
| Bearing Capacity of Model Footings in Unsaturated Soils | p. 483 |
| Influence of Soil Suction on Trench Stability | p. 495 |
| Index | p. 503 |
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