Temperature effects on mechanical characteristics of clay soils are analyzed. Some problems are studied in detail
including the thermal consolidation problem
the temperature effects on permeability
thermal conductivity and thermal resistivity
thermal volume change of the clay-water system
etc. Particularly
the changes of pore pressure induced by temperature and the mechanisms of reversibility of the thermal volume change on various types of clay soils are analyzed. Besides
the thermal mechanical models for saturated clays are discussed simply.