The Emergence of Unsaturated Soil Mechanics

The first ISSMFE conference (International Society for Soil Mechanics and Foundation Engineering) in 1936 provided a forum for the establishment of principles and equations for what has been come to be known as saturated soil mechanics. A significant number of research papers were presented on unsaturated soil behavior at the first ISSMFE conference but it would take 3 to 4 decades before a sound theoretical basis would emerge for the practice of unsaturated soil mechanics. It took visionary, pioneer engineers such as Prof. Spencer Buchanan to organize the international series of conferences on expansive soils. This series of conferences would provide a focused forum for the later development of the broader discipline of unsaturated soil mechanics.

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