Moisture retention of a swelling soil under capillary and overburden pressures

Journal of Hydrology

Volumn 203, Issue 1-4, 1997, Pages 119-126

  Tariq, Ata Ur Rehman ^a   Durnford, Deanna S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY   (Pakistan)

^b Department of Ecosystem Science and Sustainability   (United States)

Author keywords

Capillary water; Clay soils; Constitutive equation; Expansive materials; Moisture content; Unsaturated soils

Indexed keywords

CLAY; MOISTURE; PRESSURE; SOILS; WATER;

CAPILLARY WATER; CONSTITUTIVE EQUATION; MOISTURE RETENTION;

MOISTURE DETERMINATION;

CAPILLARITY; MOISTURE CONTENT; MOSITURE CONTENT; OVERBURDEN; SWELLING SOIL;

EID: 0031593092     PISSN: 00221694     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0022-1694(97)00089-9     Document Type: Article

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