Design of dual-sensor for measuring soil water characteristic curve

Nongye Jixie Xuebao/Transactions of the Chinese Society of Agricultural Machinery

Volumn 40, Issue 5, 2009, Pages

  Ren, Shujuan ^a   Sun, Yurui ^a   Ren, Tusheng ^a  

^a CHINA AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Dual sensor; Matric suction; Soil; Water characteristic curve; Water content

Indexed keywords

AS-SOILS; CLASSICAL METHODS; DUAL-SENSOR; MATRIC SUCTION; METALLIC TUBES; PRESSURE CHAMBER; SOIL MATRIC SUCTION; SOIL SAMPLE; SOIL-WATER CHARACTERISTIC CURVE; VOLUMETRIC WATER CONTENT; WATER CHARACTERISTIC CURVE;

CLAY MINERALS; HUMIDITY CONTROL; SENSORS; SOIL MOISTURE; SOIL STRUCTURE INTERACTIONS; UNDERWATER SOILS;

WATER CONTENT;

EID: 66349086821     PISSN: 10001298     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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