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Multiscale Geomechanics
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Saturation line
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Moisture content
Capillary pressure
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silt
Paste drainage
Capillary pressure
Figure 9.2.
A cycle of drainage-imbibition on normally consolidated Jossigny silt [IND 91]
12) Other aspects, such as changes in behavior due to time, known as aging, are
hereby acknowledged, but fall beyond the scope of this chapter.
According to experimental results [BIA 08], certain features, independent of the
nature of constituents, can be distinguished as common to the behavior of soils. A
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