Author(s)

Saad Bensallam, Lahcen Bahi, Houssine Ejjaaouani, Vladimir Shakhirev

Ecole Mohammadia des Ingénieurs – UM5 Agdal, Rabat, Morocco.
Laboratoire Public d’Etudes et d’Essais, Casablanca, Morocco.

On the basis of the existing relation between the soil’s water content and its structural evolution, we elaborate a new analytical model allowing the analysis of the soil’s shrinkage curve according to the limits of its hydro-structural boundaries. This model was conducted on undisturbed clayey soil at Moulel-Bergui, Morocco.

Clayey Soil; Expansive Soil; Shrinkage Curve; Analytical Model

S. Bensallam, L. Bahi, H. Ejjaaouani and V. Shakhirev, "A New Shrinkage Curve Model, Applied to Moroccan Clayey Soil," International Journal of Geosciences, Vol. 3 No. 3, 2012, pp. 507-514. doi: 10.4236/ijg.2012.33053.