Anh Minh Tang

TL;DR: In this paper, the effect of W-D cycles on the geometric characteristics of crack patterns was analyzed by image processing, and the results showed that the observed cracks were significantly influenced by the applied WD cycles, but this influence was reduced after the third cycle.

TL;DR: In this paper, the problems related to unsaturated soils are frequently encountered in geotechnical or environmental engineering works in most cases, for simplicity, one can study the problems by considering the suc...

TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated the desiccation cracking behavior at three temperatures (22, 60 and 105°C) and found that the initial critical water content (wIC), which corresponds to the initiation of desiliccation crack, increases with temperature rise, and the ratio RSC increases with decreasing water content and then keeps almost constant when the water content becomes lower than the critical Water Content (wFC).

TL;DR: In this paper, a mixture of the MX80 bentonite and the Callovo-Oxfordian (COx) claystone was investigated by carrying out a series of experiments including determination of the swelling pressure of compacted samples by constant volume method, pre-swell method, zero swell method and swell-consolidation method.

TL;DR: In this paper, a thermal probe based on the hot wire method was used to measure the thermal conductivity of compacted bentonite specimens and the experimental results were analyzed to observe the effects of various factors (i.e. dry density, water content, hysteresis, degree of saturation and volumetric fraction of soil constituents).