Author Description

"This includes topics not available in other books, such as the state-dependency of soil water retention behaviour, water permeability function, suction effects on dilatancy and peak shear strength, small strain stiffness, cyclic thermal effects on unsaturated soil, state-dependent elastoplastic, constitutive modelling of the monotonic, and cyclic behaviour of unsaturated soils. With case studies including the South-to-North Water Transfer Project in China, and the design of wall deflection in deep excavation problems. This new edition covers recent suction history on small strain stiffness, cyclic thermal effects on soil behaviour, and wall deflection in deep excavations"--