Behavior of unsaturated layered soil columns during infiltration

Journal of Hydrologic Engineering

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 329-337

  Yang, Hong ^a,b   Rahardjo, H ^b   Leong, E C ^b  

^a Iowa State University   (United States)

^b NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Hysteresis; Infiltration; Laboratory tests; Layered Soils; Pore water pressure; Rainfall; Unsaturated soils; Water content

Indexed keywords

HYSTERESIS; MECHANICAL PERMEABILITY; PORE PRESSURE; RAIN; SATURATION (MATERIALS COMPOSITION);

LABORATORY TESTS; LAYERED SOILS; PORE WATER PRESSURE; SOIL WATER; UNSATURATED SOILS; WATER CONTENT;

INFILTRATION;

HYSTERESIS; INFILTRATION; MECHANICAL PERMEABILITY; PORE PRESSURE; RAIN; SATURATION (MATERIALS COMPOSITION);

HYSTERESIS; INFILTRATION; LABORATORY METHOD; PERMEABILITY; PORE PRESSURE; SOIL COLUMN; SOIL WATER;

EID: 33745249935     PISSN: 10840699     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)1084-0699(2006)11:4(329)     Document Type: Article

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