Packing of sands for the production of homogeneous porous media

Soil Science Society of America Journal

Volumn 60, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 49-53

  Oliviera, I B ^a   Demond, A H ^b   Salehzadeh, A ^b  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF BAHIA   (Brazil)

^b The Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INFILTRATION; SOIL COLUMN; SOIL POROSITY;

EXPERIMENTAL STUDIES; HOMOGENEOUS; PACKED COLUMNS; PACKING TECHNIQUES; POROUS MEDIA;

EID: 0030298825     PISSN: 03615995     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2136/sssaj1996.03615995006000010010x     Document Type: Article

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