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This article compares the Pore Size Distribution (PSD) study of two different fine graded swelling soils, in natural state, and remoulded at the same initial state. The soil fabric of these clayey soils including the macropores, mesopores, and micropores was mainly studied by the mercury intrusion porosimetry (MIP) technique. For both soils, the results showed clearly that the soil fabric of the remoulded samples compacted in the laboratory are significantly different from the natural ones. Therefore, as the artificial compacted samples do not correctly represent the natural soil fabric, hydro-mechanical parameters measured on them would be different from those obtained on the intact natural samples.
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Nowamooz, H., Masrouri, F. (2012). Soil Fabric of Compacted and Natural Swelling Soils Studied by Mercury Intrusion Porosimetry. In: Mancuso, C., Jommi, C., D’Onza, F. (eds) Unsaturated Soils: Research and Applications. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-31116-1_17
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