The document discusses predicting swelling pressure of expansive soils using compositional and environmental factors. Expansive soils exhibit significant volume changes with moisture content variations, which can damage foundations. Directly determining swelling characteristics is expensive. The paper investigates how soil state (reflected by initial moisture content, dry density, and surcharge pressure) and soil type (reflected by liquid limit and plasticity index) influence predicted swelling pressure. 46 free swell oedometer tests were conducted on 4 soils, varying one factor at a time over practical ranges. Results show swelling pressure is associated with both compositional and environmental factors.