Moisture Movement Through Cracked Clay Soil Profiles

Geotechnical and Geological Engineering

Volumn 28, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 865-888

  Fredlund, Delwyn G ^a   Houston, Sandra L ^b   Nguyen, Quan ^c   Fredlund, Murray D ^d  

^a GOLDER ASSOCIATES LTD   (Canada)

^b ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c GOLDER ASSOCIATES PTY LTD   (Australia)

^d SoilVision Systems Ltd   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cracked clay; Unsaturated flow; Unsaturated soil properties; Unsaturated soils

Indexed keywords

CLAY SOIL; CRACK WIDTH; CRACKED CLAY; EXFILTRATION; MATRIC SUCTIONS; MOISTURE MOVEMENT; PARAMETRIC STUDY; SLAB-ON-GRADE FOUNDATION; SOIL SUCTION; SOIL SURFACES; SOIL-WATER CHARACTERISTIC CURVE; SUCTION DISTRIBUTIONS; SURFACE CRACKING; SURFACE FLUX; UNSATURATED FLOW; UNSATURATED HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; UNSATURATED POROUS MEDIA; UNSATURATED SOIL; UNSATURATED SOIL PROPERTIES; WATER STORAGE;

CONTINUUM MECHANICS; CRACKS; ELASTICITY; HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; POROUS MATERIALS; SURFACE DEFECTS;

CLAY;

CLAY SOIL; CRACK; HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; INFILTRATION; MOISTURE TRANSFER; POROUS MEDIUM; SOIL MECHANICS; SOIL PROFILE; SOIL PROPERTY; SOIL WATER; UNSATURATED FLOW;

EID: 78049334733     PISSN: 09603182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10706-010-9349-x     Document Type: Article

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