TY - BOOK AU - Youssef Gomaa Youssef Morsi AU - Ahmed Amr Darrag , AU - Tamer Yehia Elkady , TI - Numerical modeling of expansive soils using uncoupled approach / PY - 2010/// CY - Cairo : PB - Youssef Gomaa Youssef Morsi , KW - Expansive KW - Finite element KW - Uncoupled N1 - Thesis (Ph.D.) - Cairo University - Faculty of Engineering - Department of Civil Engineering; Issued also as CD N2 - Expansive soils cause damages to structures due to swelling or shrinking as a response to change in soil moisture . Expansive soil is one of the most costly natural disasters in the world . This disseration presents an investigation of engineering behavior of expansive soils . Unsaturated soil mechanics theoretical approach is considered as a powerful tool for estimation of volume change of expansive soils ER -