Volumetric shrinkage curve (VSC) provides volume of the soil specimen with changes in the water content.
In these tests, the maximum double-amplitude shear strain should reach 100% for each soil specimen.
In this test, a soil specimen, compacted in laboratory or collected from exploratory soil borings, is generally used.
Further, it increased with compression coefficient, but decreased with the increase of compression modulus of soil specimen.
Detailed designs and modifications are carried out to allow the unsaturated permeability and the shear strength of a soil to be measured for the same soil specimen.
For both reconstituted and undisturbed specimens, higher consolidation rate was observed for the soil specimen with PVD loaded under elevated temperature.
To do so, total suction changes were monitored at different locations along the soil specimen by using resistive relative humidity probes.
Furthermore, after switching electrode, decrease of iron concentration and pH in the soil specimen near cathode before switching electrode generated decrease of H2O2 decomposition rate.
Two soil specimen types (i.e., sand mixture and sand loam mixture) were cured under sealed, drying, and changing water content conditions.
The soil specimen contained more contaminants and their interaction resulted in lower solubility even with the simultaneous use of the two surfactants.
In this study, a plane strain soil specimen 12.8 m wide by 48 m high is subjected to undrained compression and shear via finite element analysis (FEA).
