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The influence of soil structure and stress history on the soil-water characteristics of a compacted till

Sai K. Vanapalli, +2 more
- 01 Apr 1999 - 
- Vol. 49, Iss: 6, pp 573-576
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The soil-water characteristic defines the relationship between the soil suction and gravimetric water content, w, or the volumetric water contents, θ or the degree of saturation, S.
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The soil–water characteristic defines the relationship between the soil suction and gravimetric water content, w, or the volumetric water content, θ, or the degree of saturation, S. Theoretical and...

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A critical review of soil moisture measurement

TL;DR: A critical review of all the established and emerging soil moisture measurement techniques with respect to their merits and demerits is presented in this article, where the authors highlight the importance of various innovations based on Micro Electro Mechanical Systems (MEMS) and nano-sensors emerging in this context.
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An insight into the water retention properties of compacted clayey soils

TL;DR: In this paper, a new model for water retention domain is proposed, which introduces a dependence of the intra-aggregate pore volume on water content, and the model succeeds in tracking correctly the evolution of the hydraulic state of the different soils investigated along generalised hydromechanical paths.
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A model to predict the water retention curve from basic geotechnical properties

TL;DR: The water retention curve (WRC) has become a key material function to define the unsaturated behavior of soils and other particulate media as discussed by the authors, and in many instances, it can be useful to have an estimate o...
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Influence of Stress State on Soil-Water Characteristics and Slope Stability

TL;DR: In this article, a new stress controllable pressure plate was developed to investigate the influence on the stress state on the soil-water characteristics, and the effects of K0 stress conditions on the SWCCs of an undisturbed volcanic soil in Hong Kong were determined and illustrated.

An insight into the water retention properties of compacted clayey soils

TL;DR: Experimental data from different testing methodologies on different compacted clayey soils, with dominant bimodal pore size distribution, are presented and analyzed, to provide a comprehensive pict... as mentioned in this paper.
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The pore-pressure coefficients a and b

Alec Westley Skempton
- 01 Dec 1954 - 
TL;DR: In this article, the pore pressure coefficients A and B were derived and some typical values of the experimentally determined pore-pressure coefficients were given, and some practical applications of these coefficients have been outlined by Bishop.
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Introduction to environmental soil physics

Daniel Hillel
TL;DR: In this paper, the Solid Phase, Liquid Phase, and Gaseous Phase of the field water cycle are described. But they do not discuss the relationship between the two phases of the water cycle.
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Microstructure of a compacted silt

TL;DR: In this paper, a qualitative and quantitative study of the microstructure of a compacted silt, carried out using a scanning electron microscope and mercury intrusion pore size distribution was presented.
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Influence of Clods on the Hydraulic Conductivity of Compacted Clay

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated the influence of clod size on the hydraulic conductivity of compacted clay and found that clods size during soil processing and compaction significantly influenced the compaction curve.