Testing system for hydraulic properties of unsaturated nonwoven geotextiles

Geosynthetics International

Volumn 17, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 355-363

  McCartney, J S ^a   Znidarcic, D ^a  

^a University of Colorado at Boulder   (United States)

Author keywords

Geosynthetics; Geotextiles; Unsaturated geomaterials; Water retention curve

Indexed keywords

FLOW CONTROL; FLOW OF WATER; HYDRAULICS; NONWOVEN FABRICS; SOIL TESTING;

AXIS TRANSLATION TECHNIQUE; EQUILIBRIUM FLOW CONDITIONS; FLEXIBLE WALL PERMEAMETER; GEOMATERIALS; GEOSYNTHETICS; HYDRAULIC PROPERTIES; NONWOVEN GEOTEXTILES; WATER RETENTION CURVE;

GEOTEXTILES;

GEOSYNTHETICS; GEOTEXTILE; HYDRAULIC PROPERTY; MEASUREMENT METHOD; REWETTING; TESTING METHOD; UNSATURATED MEDIUM; WATER RETENTION;

EID: 77957371069     PISSN: 10726349     EISSN: 17517613     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1680/gein.2010.17.5.355     Document Type: Article

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