Water content reflectometer application to construction materials and its relation to time domain reflectometry

Vadose Zone Journal

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 459-468

  Hansson, Klas ^a   Lundin, Lars Christer ^b  

^a ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^b UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAPILLARY FRINGE; CONSTRUCTION MATERIAL; DIELECTRIC PROPERTY; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; MOISTURE CONTENT; NUMERICAL MODEL; SAMPLING; SENSOR; TIME DOMAIN REFLECTOMETRY;

EID: 34547857364     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15391663     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2136/vzj2005.0053     Document Type: Article

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