Some investigations about the tensile strength and the desiccation process of unsaturated clay H. Trabelsi, M. Jamei, H. Guiras, Z. Hatem, E. Romero and O. Sebastia EPJ Web of Conferences, 6 (2010) 12005 Published online: 10 June 2010 DOI: 10.1051/epjconf/20100612005