Water retention properties of perlite as a material with crushable soft particles

Engineering Geology

Volumn 122, Issue 3-4, 2011, Pages 261-271

  Jamei, M ^a   Guiras, H ^a   Chtourou, Y ^a   Kallel, A ^a   Romero, E ^b   Georgopoulos, I ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TUNIS EL MANAR   (Tunisia)

^b UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

^c NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Evolution of water retention characteristics; Particle crushing; Perlite; Predicting

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL MATERIAL; DOUBLE POROSITY; EXPERIMENTAL TECHNIQUES; GRAIN SIZE DISTRIBUTION; PARTIALLY SATURATED; PARTICLE CRUSHING; PERLITE; PREDICTING; SOFT PARTICLES; UNSATURATED MATERIALS; WATER RETENTION; WATER RETENTION CURVE; WATER RETENTION PROPERTIES; WEIBULL THEORY;

CRUSHING; GRAIN SIZE AND SHAPE; TEXTILE BLENDS; WEIBULL DISTRIBUTION;

MATERIALS;

CRUSHING; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; GRAIN SIZE; LOADING; NUMERICAL MODEL; PERLITE; SIZE DISTRIBUTION; WATER RETENTION; WEIBULL THEORY;

EID: 80053296567     PISSN: 00137952     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.enggeo.2011.06.005     Document Type: Article

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