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Retention Properties and Compressibility of a Compacted Soil -- Model for Prediction of Shear Strength with Respect to Degree of Saturation -- Simple Modeling of Stress-Strain Relation for Unsaturated Soil -- Effect of Stress Paths on Shear Strength Response of Unsaturated Gassy Sand from Hangzhou Metro Project -- Novel Suction-Controlled Ring Shear Testing Apparatus for Unsaturated Soils -- Modeling Unsaturated Soil Behavior under Multiaxial Stress Paths Using a Refined Suction-Controlled Cubical Test Cell -- Effect of Saturation on Cyclic Volumetric Change of Compacted Silty Sands -- Wetting and Drying Unsaturated Soil Moisture Diffusivity Parameters -- Influence of Initial Water Content on the Collapsibility of Loess -- Treatment of Collapsible Soils by Salts Using the Double Consolidation Method -- Soil Water Characteristic Curve Parameters of Compacted Lateritic Soil Treated with Bagasse Ash -- Variations in Soil Water Characteristic Curves of Lateritic Soil Treated with Bentonite -- Analytical Solution of the Barcelona Basic Model -- Fundamentals of Unsaturated Soil Modelling: Have We Got It Right? -- Elastoplastic Modelling of Hydraulic and Mechanical Behaviour of Unsaturated Expansive Soils -- Effect of Slope Terrain on Distribution of Matric Suction in Unsaturated Slopes Subjected to Rainfall -- Three-Dimensional Slope Stability Analysis of Unsaturated Soil Slopes Subject to Reservoir Water Level Fluctuations -- Effect of Environmental Conditions on Stability of an Unsaturated Soil Slope -- Failure Mechanism of Unsaturated Volcanic Slopes Due to Rainfall and Freeze-Thaw Actions -- Centrifuge Model Tests of Slopes with Weak Layer under Rainfall -- Development of Shrinkage Model for Clays Based on Moisture Variation -- Slope Stability Analysis of Railway Embankments Considering the Effects of Vegetation and Capillarity -- Stabilization of Embankment on Expansive Soil : A Case Study -- An Empirical Method for Predicting Foundation Heave Rate in Expansive Soil -- Effect of Water Sources on Water Migration in the Vadose Zone -- Signal Processing of Water Level Fluctuations in a Sloping Sandy Beach Modeled in a Laboratory Wave Canal -- Non-Destructive Measurements of Unsaturated Seepage Flow Using Surface Ground-Penetrating Radar -- Unified Solutions for Unsaturated Soil Shear Strength and Active Earth Pressure.