Measurement of unsaturated hydraulic properties of municipal solid waste

Geotechnical Special Publication

Volumn , Issue 211 GSP, 2011, Pages 1433-1442

  Breitmeyer, Ronald J ^a   Benson, Craig H ^b  

^a EXPONENT INC   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Hydraulic properties; Municipal wastes; Solid wastes

Indexed keywords

DRY DENSITY; HANGING COLUMNS; HYDRAULIC PROPERTIES; MULTI-STEP; MUNICIPAL WASTES; NON-LINEAR REGRESSION; PARAMETER ESTIMATION METHOD; PARAMETERIZED; ROOT MEAN SQUARED ERRORS; UNSATURATED HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; UNSATURATED HYDRAULICS; UNSATURATED SOIL; WATER RETENTION CURVE;

CONSTITUTIVE MODELS; GEOLOGIC MODELS; GEOTECHNICAL ENGINEERING; HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PARAMETERIZATION; PARTICLE SIZE; SOIL TESTING;

MUNICIPAL SOLID WASTE;

EID: 79956356393     PISSN: 08950563     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1061/41165(397)147     Document Type: Conference Paper

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