All Outputs (9)

Modelling of the water retention characteristic of deformable soils (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Wang, Y., Sheng, D., Ross, K., & Toll, D. G. (2016). Modelling of the water retention characteristic of deformable soils. . https://doi.org/10.1051/e3sconf/20160911005

A recently proposed water retention model has been further developed for the application on unsaturated deformable soils. The physical mechanisms underpinning the water retention characteristic of soils was at first described in terms of traditional... Read More about Modelling of the water retention characteristic of deformable soils.

Soil water retention behaviour for an instrumented embankment (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Toll, D., Hughes, P., & Asquith, J. (2016). Soil water retention behaviour for an instrumented embankment. . https://doi.org/10.1051/e3sconf/20160910013

Measurement of soil suction is important as soil suction is one of the two stress-state variables that control both the hydro and mechanical behaviour of unsaturated soils. One of the soil suction measurement techniques is the filter paper method. Ev... Read More about Soil water retention behaviour for an instrumented embankment.

Comparison of Soil Water Retention Curves for sandy clay, obtained using different laboratory testing methods (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Osinski, P., Toll, D., & Koda, E. (2016). Comparison of Soil Water Retention Curves for sandy clay, obtained using different laboratory testing methods. . https://doi.org/10.1051/e3sconf/20160911008

The design of engineering structures is still a challenging task when considering unsaturated soil mechanics behaviour. The present paper focuses on analysing Soil Water Retention Curves (SWRC) for clayey soil samples collected from a purpose built e... Read More about Comparison of Soil Water Retention Curves for sandy clay, obtained using different laboratory testing methods.

Water repellent soils: the case for unsaturated soil mechanics (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Beckett, C., Fourie, A., & Toll, D. (2016). Water repellent soils: the case for unsaturated soil mechanics. . https://doi.org/10.1051/e3sconf/20160911011

Water repellent (or “hydrophobic” or “non-wetting”) soils have been studied by soil scientists for well over a century. These soils are typified by poor water infiltration, which leads to increased soil erosion and poor crop growth. However, the impo... Read More about Water repellent soils: the case for unsaturated soil mechanics.

Flood Holding Capacity: A Novel Concept to Evaluate the Resilience of Amended Soils (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Kerr, H., Johnson, K., Toll, D. G., & Mansfield, F. (2016). Flood Holding Capacity: A Novel Concept to Evaluate the Resilience of Amended Soils. . https://doi.org/10.1061/9780784480120.041

The term water holding capacity (WHC) has long been used to help researchers determine how soils respond to typical wetting under rainfall. However the term WHC is insufficient as a measurement to describe how soil responds to flooding events. This p... Read More about Flood Holding Capacity: A Novel Concept to Evaluate the Resilience of Amended Soils.

Soil Water Retention Behaviour of a Sandy Clay Fill Material (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Toll, D., Asquith, J., Hughes, P., & Osinski, P. (2016). Soil Water Retention Behaviour of a Sandy Clay Fill Material. . https://doi.org/10.1016/j.proeng.2016.06.039

The performance of transportation networks is critically dependent on the performance of cutting and embankment slopes. An instrumented embankment has been established at Nafferton farm in North East England to investigate the response of an embankme... Read More about Soil Water Retention Behaviour of a Sandy Clay Fill Material.

Review of the XVI European Conference on Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering (2016)
Journal Article
Winter, M. G., Smith, D. M., Eldred, P. J., Toll, D. G., & Chrimes, M. (2016). Review of the XVI European Conference on Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering. Geotechnical Engineering, 169(5), https://doi.org/10.1680/jgeen.16.00020

Tropical Soils (2016)
Book Chapter
Toll, D. (in press). Tropical Soils. In J. Burland, T. Chapman, H. Skinner, & M. Brown (Eds.), ICE Manual of Geotechnical Engineering (341-361). Institution of Civil Engineers

Influence of initial water content on the mechanical behaviour of an unsaturated sandy clay soil (2016)
Journal Article
Mendes, J., & Toll, D. (2016). Influence of initial water content on the mechanical behaviour of an unsaturated sandy clay soil. International Journal of Geomechanics, 16(6), Article D4016005. https://doi.org/10.1061/%28asce%29gm.1943-5622.0000594

The mechanical behavior of a sandy clay soil was investigated by a series of constant water content triaxial tests on unsaturated samples with suction measurements. The tests were carried out in double-cell triaxial cells on compacted samples and als... Read More about Influence of initial water content on the mechanical behaviour of an unsaturated sandy clay soil.