Velocity-moisture relationships for sandy soils: Experimental results and data analysis

IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement

Volumn 58, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 311-317

  Adamo, Francesco ^a   Fabbiano, Laura ^a   Attivissimo, Filippo ^a   Giaquinto, Nicola ^a  

^a POLITECNICO DI BARI   (Italy)

Author keywords

Acoustic propagation; Moisture measurement; Seismic method; Soil measurements

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC WAVE VELOCITY; ACOUSTIC WAVES; ACOUSTICS; EARTHQUAKES; ENGINEERING GEOLOGY; GEOLOGIC MODELS; GEOTHERMAL FIELDS; MOISTURE; MOISTURE DETERMINATION; MOISTURE METERS; PETROLEUM PROSPECTING; PETROLEUM REFINING; SEISMOLOGY; SOILS; ULTRASONICS; VELOCITY;

ACOUSTIC METHODS; ACOUSTIC PROPAGATION; BULK MODULUS; CALCULATED VALUES; DATA ANALYSIS; EXPERIMENTAL COMPARISONS; GEOTHERMAL RESOURCES; IN-SITU; MEASUREMENT SYSTEMS; MOISTURE MEASUREMENT; PETROLEUM EXPLORATIONS; POROUS MEDIUMS; POTENTIAL APPLICATIONS; PROPAGATION VELOCITIES; SANDY SOILS; SEISMIC METHOD; SOIL CHARACTERIZATIONS; SOIL MEASUREMENTS; SOIL PROPERTIES; WAVE VELOCITIES;

SOIL SURVEYS;

EID: 60149097669     PISSN: 00189456     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIM.2008.928879     Document Type: Article

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