Comparison between the in situ and laboratory Water Retention Curves for a silty sand

Unsaturated Soils - Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Unsaturated Soils

Volumn 1, Issue , 2011, Pages 423-428

  Askarinejad, A ^a   Casini, F ^a   Kienzler, P ^a   Springman, S M ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL RAINFALL; EXTREME RAINFALL; IN-SITU; LABORATORY TEST; RIVER RHINE; SHEAR RESISTANCES; SILTY SANDS; STEEP SLOPE; SWITZERLAND; UNDISTURBED SAMPLE; VOLUMETRIC WATER CONTENT; WATER RETENTION CURVE; WETTING AND DRYING;

EXPERIMENTS; RAIN;

SOILS;

EID: 84857683413     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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