Model of soil-water characteristics for unsaturated geotechnical materials under arbitrary drying-wetting paths

Yanshilixue Yu Gongcheng Xuebao/Chinese Journal of Rock Mechanics and Engineering

Volumn 27, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 1046-1052

  Xu, Yanbing ^a   Wei, Changfu ^a   Chen, Hui ^a   Luan, Maotian ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b DALIAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Air entrapment; Capillary hysteresis; Drying wetting cycle; Soil mechanics; Soil water characteristic curve; Unsaturated geotechnical media

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DRYING; HYDRAULICS; HYSTERESIS LOOPS; LIMESTONE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; POROUS MATERIALS; WETTING;

AIR ENTRAPMENT; CAPILLARY HYSTERESIS; DRYING WETTING CYCLE; GEOLOGICAL MATERIAL; NUMERICAL SIMULATION; SOIL WATER CHARACTERISTIC CURVE (SWCC); UNSATURATED GEOTECHNICAL MEDIA;

SOIL MECHANICS;

EID: 44849105425     PISSN: 10006915     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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