Analysis of soil shrinkage data

Soil and Tillage Research

Volumn 79, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 71-77

  Groenevelt, P H ^a   Grant, C D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Bimodal shrinkage; Modelling; Moisture ratio; Residual shrinkage; Shrinkage limit; Swelling soils; Void ratio

Indexed keywords

DATA REDUCTION; DERIVATIVES; MOISTURE; SHRINKAGE; STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS; SWELLING; WATER;

SOIL SHRINKAGE; WATER CONTENT;

SOILS;

MODELING; NUMERICAL METHOD; SHRINKAGE; SOIL WATER; SWELLING;

EID: 4143071335     PISSN: 01671987     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.still.2004.03.011     Document Type: Article

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