Comparison of testing techniques and models for establishing the SWCC of riverbank soils

S Nam, M Gutierrez, P Diplas, J Petrie, A Wayllace… - Engineering …, 2010 - Elsevier
The soil water characteristic curve (SWCC), also known as soil water retention curve
(SWRC), describes the relationship between water content and soil suction in unsaturated …

Global Soil Hydraulic Properties dataset based on legacy site observations and robust parameterization

S Gupta, A Papritz, P Lehmann, T Hengl, S Bonetti… - Scientific Data, 2022 - nature.com
The representation of land surface processes in hydrological and climatic models critically
depends on the soil water characteristics curve (SWCC) that defines the plant availability …

Artificial neural network (ANN) models for determining hydraulic conductivity of compacted fine-grained soils

Y Erzin, SD Gumaste, AK Gupta… - Canadian Geotechnical …, 2009 - cdnsciencepub.com
This study deals with development of artificial neural networks (ANNs) and multiple
regression analysis (MRA) models for determining hydraulic conductivity of fine-grained …

Probabilistic analysis of soil-water characteristic curve of bentonite: multivariate copula approach

A Prakash, B Hazra, S Sekharan - International Journal of …, 2020 - ascelibrary.org
Measurement of the soil-water characteristic curve (SWCC) is time-consuming for soils such
as bentonites. It is desirable to develop a first-hand estimate of SWCC from a statistical …

A novel methodology for measuring the tensile strength of expansive clays

SB Shinde, VU Kala, S Kadali… - Geomechanics and …, 2012 - Taylor & Francis
Several experimental techniques (viz., triaxial tests, direct tensile tests or suction
measurements) have been developed and employed by earlier researchers to measure the …

Critical evaluation of the drying water retention characteristics of a class F Indian fly ash

C Malaya, S Sreedeep - Journal of materials in civil engineering, 2012 - ascelibrary.org
The utility of waste fly ash, especially class F, in agriculture, geotechnical, and
geoenvironmental applications have increased manifold. In most of these cases, precise …

Application of thermal flux for establishing soil–water characteristic curve of kaolin

BH Rao, DN Singh - Geomechanics and Geoengineering, 2010 - Taylor & Francis
Application of field and laboratory insertion tensiometers, pressure membrane extractor,
PME, a dew point potentiameter, WP4, and a geotechnical centrifuge for establishing soil …

Establishing soil-water characteristic curve and determining unsaturated hydraulic conductivity of kaolin by ultracentrifugation and electrical measurements

BH Rao, DN Singh - Canadian geotechnical journal, 2012 - cdnsciencepub.com
To establish soil-water characteristic curves (SWCCs) of fine-grained soils, researchers
have employed geotechnical centrifuges. However, most of these studies were confined to …

[PDF][PDF] Developing Pedo Transfer Functions to Predict Infiltration Rate in Flood Spreading Stations of Iran MH Mahdian,“RS Oskoee," K. Kamali,“H. Angoshtari and" MA …

MH Mahdian - Research Journal of Environmental Sciences, 2009 - researchgate.net
Since, measuring infiltration rate directly is time consuming and expensive, the Pedo
Transfer Functions (PTFs) were developed to estimate soil infiltration rate using soil physical …

Novel techniques to simulate and monitor contaminant–geomaterial interactions

DN Singh - Indian Geotechnical Journal, 2019 - Springer
Generation of huge amount of the toxic and hazardous wastes coming out of various
industrial and domestic activities is becoming a major threat to the society. In the long run …