Angles between cracks developed at primary shrinkage of finegrained soil material

International Agrophysics

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 43-51

  Hartge, K H ^a   Bachmann, J ^b  

^a Institut fur Bodenkunde ^*  (Germany)

^b LEIBNIZ UNIVERSITY HANNOVER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cracking patterns; Shrinkage

Indexed keywords

FINE GRAINED SEDIMENT; GEOMETRY; SHRINKAGE; SOIL CRACKING;

EID: 0034077895     PISSN: 02368722     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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