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Introduction to unsaturated soils, phase properties and relations, stress state variables. Measurement & theory of soil suction, capillarity, permeability, shear strength, failure envelope for unsaturated soils, triaxial and direct shear tests, volume change behaviour.
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Introduction to unsaturated soils, phase properties and relations, stress state variables. Measurement & theory of soil suction, capillarity, permeability, shear strength, failure envelope for unsaturated soils, triaxial and direct shear tests, volume change behaviour.
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