Measurement of unfrozen water content and relative permittivity of frozen unsaturated soil using NMR and TDR

Cold Regions Science and Technology

Volumn 59, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 34-41

  Watanabe, Kunio ^a   Wake, Tomomi ^a  

^a MIE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Frozen soil; Nuclear magnetic resonance; Permittivity; Time domain reflectometry; Unfrozen water; Unsaturated soil

Indexed keywords

DIELECTRIC MIXING MODEL; DIELECTRIC PERMITTIVITIES; ICE CONTENT; ICE FORMATIONS; LIQUID WATER CONTENT; MASS TRANSFER PROCESS; MIXING MODELS; POROUS MEDIA; PULSED NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; RELATIVE PERMITTIVITY; SANDY SOILS; SOIL TYPES; SUB-ZERO TEMPERATURES; SURFACE FORCES; TIME-DOMAIN REFLECTOMETRY; TOTAL WATER CONTENT; UNFROZEN WATER; UNSATURATED SOIL;

FREEZING; GEOLOGIC MODELS; ICE; LIQUIDS; MAGNETIC DOMAINS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; PERMITTIVITY; POROUS MATERIALS; REFLECTION; REFLECTOMETERS; RESONANCE; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS; WATER CONTENT;

FROZEN SOILS;

FROZEN GROUND; MASS TRANSFER; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; PERMITTIVITY; POROUS MEDIUM; SOIL TYPE; TIME DOMAIN REFLECTOMETRY; UNSATURATED MEDIUM; WATER CONTENT; WATER TEMPERATURE;

EID: 70349179262     PISSN: 0165232X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.coldregions.2009.05.011     Document Type: Article

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