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Unsaturated Geomechanics

An ever-important field of study, MGG here seeks to understand the behaviour of geomaterials with moisture contents below saturation.

Publications

2008

Journal Articles
  • Bouazza A, Gates WP, Ranjith PG. (2008) Hydraulic conductivity of biopolymer-treated silty sand. Géotechnique. 58: In press. Accepted October 2008.

2007

Journal Articles
  • Kodikara, J.K. and Kurucuk, N. Representation of Soil Water Characteristic Curve using Bezier Equations, submitted to Geotechnique.
  • Ranjith, P.G. and Darlington, W. Nonlinear single-phase flow in real rock joints, Water Resource Research, Vol 43, pp. 1-9.
  • Nahlawi, H., Bouazza, A. and Kodikara, J. Characterisation of geotextiles water retention using a modified capillary pressure cell, Geotextiles and Geomembranes, Vol. 25, No. 3, pp. 186-193.
Conference Proceedings
  • Wightwick, M., Kodikara, J. and Ranjith, P.G. The water retention characteristics of road pavement material stabilised with hydrophobic additives, Common Ground, Proceedings of the 10 th ANZ Conference on Geomechanics, Brisbane, Edited by J.Ameratunge, B. Taylor and M. Patten, AGS, Australia, Volume 1, pp. 580-585.
  • Nahlawi, H., Bouazza, A. and Kodikara, J. Surface water infiltration in a 1-dimensional soil-geotextile column, Common Ground, Proceedings of the 10 th ANZ Conference on Geomechanics, Brisbane, Edited by J. Ameratunge, B. Taylor and M. Patten, AGS, Australia, Volume 1, pp. 368-373.

2006

Geotechnical Special Publications
  • Bouazza, A., Nahlawi, N., Kodikara, J. And Delage, P. Water retention curves of non woven polyester geotextiles, Unsaturated Soils, Geotechnical Special Publication NO. 147, ASCE Vol. 2, pp. 1651-1658.
Journal Articles
  • Kabir, E., Haque, A. and Bouazza, A. Effect of cyclic loading on filtration behaviour of subballast materials, Advances in Unsaturated Soil, Seepage and Environmental Geotechnics, Geotechnical Special Publication No. 148, ASCE, pp. 180-186.
Conference Proceedings
  • Bouazza, A. Nahlawi, H., Kodikara, J.K. and Delage, P. Development in the testing of unsaturated nonwoven geotextiles, Proceedings of UNSAT2006 Conference, Edited by G. A. Miller, C.E. Zapata, S.L. Houston and D.G. Fredlund, ASCE Geotechnical Special Publication, Unsaturated Soils Vol. 2, pp. 1651-1658.

2005

Journal Articles
  • Neupane, D., Bowders, J.J., Loehr, J.E., Bouazza, A. & Trautwein, S.T. Sealed double ring infiltrometers for estimating very low hydraulic conductivity. Geotechnical Testing Journal, ASTM, Vol.28, No.3, pp. 247-252 (available online).
Conference Proceedings
  • Chakrabarti, S., Mudd, G.M., and Kodikara, J. Coupled Atmopsheric-Unsaturated Flow Modelling of Leached Ash Disposal in the Latrobe Valley, Australia. Proc. "1st Int Conf on Engineering for Waste Treatment", Albi, France, May 2005, CD Rom Proceedings (ISBN 2-9511591-4-5) , 8 p.