Identifying six types of soil shrinkage curves from a large set of experimental data soil physics

Soil Science Society of America Journal

Volumn 77, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 372-381

  Peng, Xinhua ^a   Horn, Rainer ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIFFERENT SOILS; EXPERIMENTAL DATUM; MEASUREMENT METHODS; SATURATED SOILS; SHRINKAGE MODEL; SOIL ORGANIC CARBON; SOIL SHRINKAGE CURVES; SOIL WATER CONTENT;

SOIL MECHANICS; SOIL MOISTURE;

SHRINKAGE;

EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; IDENTIFICATION METHOD; MEASUREMENT METHOD; NUMERICAL MODEL; SHRINKAGE; SOIL MOISTURE; SOIL ORGANIC MATTER; SOIL PROPERTY; SOIL STRUCTURE; SOIL TYPE; SOIL WATER;

EID: 84877282318     PISSN: 03615995     EISSN: 14350661     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2136/sssaj2011.0422     Document Type: Article

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