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Bearing capacity of circular footings resting on unsaturated desiccated soils
Lozada, Catalina; Thorel, Luc; Caicedo, Bernardo (ICE PublishingReino Unido, 2019)When a clayey soil is exposed to desiccation, water evaporates from the surface. During dry periods, the soil may suffer from shrinking phenomena, the saturation degree decreases and formation of cracks begins. At the same ... -
A new climatic chamber for studying soil–atmosphere interaction in physical models
Lozada, Catalina; Caicedo, Bernardo; Thorel, Luc (ICE PublishingReino Unido, 2019)A new climatic chamber at the Universidad de Los Andes in Bogotá, Colombia has been designed and built to simulate atmosphere. It has been instrumented to measure various environmental variables, including relative humidity ...