Abstract
Compacted soil is widely used to build earth structure. Although construction management of the soil progresses day by day, it is said that mechanism of compaction effect isn't fully made clear. This is due to the complication of compaction mechanism of unsaturated soil. Recently, some constitutive models for unsaturated soil and SWCC models were proposed and advanced the study on unsaturated soil. In this study we regarded compaction as the consecutive cycle of compression and expansion of unsaturated soil under undrained condition, and simulated it with unsaturated soil/water/air coupled finite element analysis. In this study, we expressed the characteristics of the mechanical behavior of compacted soil, which has not been explained for a long period of geotechnical engineering. And we considered the difference of compaction procedure affected the quality of earth structures. The achievement can be managed reasonably the compaction of earth structure.
