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Expansive Soils

Expansive Soils is a type of soil that belongs to the category of fine-grained cohesive soils and is distinguished by its high content of clay minerals, particularly montmorillonite, which exhibit significant volume changes in response to variations in moisture content.

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A constitutive model for partially saturated soils

Antonio Gens, Alejandro Josa · Géotechnique · 1990 · 2.4K citations · Full text

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A framework for the behaviour of unsaturated expansive clays

Antonio Gens · Canadian Geotechnical Journal · 1992 · 721 citations · Full text

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Expansive soils: problems and practice in foundation and pavement engineering

Choice Reviews Online · 1993 · 702 citations

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Drained, undrained, consolidating and dynamic behaviour assumptions in soils

O. C. Zienkiewicz, C. T. Chang, P. Bettess · Géotechnique · 1980 · 668 citations

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Fundamentals of soil stabilization

Ali Akbar Firoozi, C. Guney Olgun, Ali Asghar Firoozi et al. · International Journal of Geo-Engineering · 2017 · 608 citations · Full text

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    Anand J. Puppala

    The University of Texas at Arlington, United States

    48 publications · 2.7K citations

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  2. SK
    Sai K. Vanapalli

    University of Ottawa, Canada

    28 publications · 1.5K citations

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  3. BR
    B. R. Phanikumar

    Vellore Institute of Technology University, India

    25 publications · 1.4K citations

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  4. TT
    T. Thyagaraj

    Indian Institute of Technology Madras, India

    20 publications · 941 citations

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  5. BC
    Bhaskar Chittoori

    Boise State University, United States

    16 publications · 780 citations

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  1. The University of Texas at Arlington

    Arlington, United States

    28 h-index

    119 publications

    6.7K citations

  2. Indian Institute of Science Bangalore

    Bengaluru, India

    22 h-index

    52 publications

    3K citations

  3. King Saud University

    Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

    21 h-index

    89 publications

    2.6K citations

  4. University of Ottawa

    Ottawa, Canada

    20 h-index

    51 publications

    3.2K citations

  5. Indian Institute of Technology Madras

    Chennai, India

    20 h-index

    41 publications

    2.1K citations

  6. Institute of Rock and Soil Mechanics

    Wuhan, China

    19 h-index

    72 publications

    2.8K citations

  7. Hohai University

    Nanjing, China

    18 h-index

    56 publications

    3.2K citations

  8. Vellore Institute of Technology University

    Vellore, India

    17 h-index

    43 publications

    2.1K citations

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  1. Canadian Geotechnical Journal

    43 publications · 4K citations

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  2. Engineering Geology

    44 publications · 4.3K citations

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  3. Journal of Materials in Civil Engineering

    43 publications · 3.6K citations

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  4. Applied Clay Science

    37 publications · 3.8K citations

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  5. Construction and Building Materials

    34 publications · 2.1K citations

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