Unsaturated soils: physics, mechanics and thermodynamics

In this category, our research has been focused on :

1. Effects of dynamic capillarity on the shear strength of sandy soils during transient two‐phase flow: Insights from non‐equilibrium triaxial simulations

https://acsess.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/vzj2.20351 

2.  Experimental and theoretical study of dynamic capillarity and transient soil water retention curves

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S2352380817300424 

3. The concept of effective stress in unsaturated soils seen through the lens of thermodynamics and mixture theory

3.1. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32165776/ 

3.2. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11242-012-0093-y 

4.  Bridging thermodynamic and micromechanics approaches to unsaturated effective stress

4.1.  https://ascelibrary.org/doi/10.1061/9780784480779.051 

4.2.   https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/19648189.2016.1164087 

Core  Current and Past Team Members:

Alireza (Parsa) Damanshokouh (now PhD student at Gent University)

International collaboration

Bruno Chareyre (Grenoble Polytechnics), Marius  Milatz (Now  chair professor at Technische Universität Braunschweig), ....