Desiccation and cracking behaviour of clay layer from slurry state under wetting-drying cycles

Geoderma

Volumn 166, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 111-118

  Tang, Chao Sheng ^a   Cui, Yu Jun ^b   Shi, Bin ^a   Tang, Anh Minh ^b   Liu, Chun ^a  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PARIS EST   (France)

Author keywords

Aggregate formation; Clay layer; Crack pattern; Desiccation crack; Image processing; Wetting drying cycle

Indexed keywords

AGGREGATE FORMATION; CLAY LAYERS; CRACK PATTERN; DESICCATION CRACKS; WETTING-DRYING;

CRACKS; DRIERS (MATERIALS); IMAGE PROCESSING; SURFACE DEFECTS; SURFACE STRUCTURE; WETTING;

DRYING;

CLAY; CRACK PROPAGATION; CRACKING; DESICCATION; EVAPORATION; IMAGE PROCESSING; LABORATORY METHOD; PORE SPACE; SHRINKAGE; SLURRY; SOIL AGGREGATE; SOIL MECHANICS; WETTING-DRYING CYCLE;

EID: 80053051841     PISSN: 00167061     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geoderma.2011.07.018     Document Type: Article

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