Laboratory evaluation of a model for soil crumbling for prediction of the optimum soil water content for tillage

Soil and Tillage Research

Volumn 105, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 242-250

  Mosaddeghi, M R ^a   Morshedizad, M ^a   Mahboubi, A A ^a   Dexter, A R ^b   Schulin, R ^c  

^a BU ALI SINA UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

^b STATE RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Poland)

^c ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Effective stress; Optimum soil water content; Plastic limit; Proctor critical water content; Soil workability; Tillage

Indexed keywords

CRITICAL WATER CONTENT; EFFECTIVE STRESS; PLASTIC LIMIT; SOIL WATER CONTENT; SOIL WORKABILITY; TILLAGE;

AGGREGATES; AGRICULTURAL MACHINERY; AGRICULTURE; ARID REGIONS; BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS; ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; SOIL MOISTURE; STABILITY; TENSILE STRENGTH; WATER CONTENT;

GEOLOGIC MODELS;

EID: 77956155984     PISSN: 01671987     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.still.2009.08.005     Document Type: Article

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