TY - CONF
T1 - Empirical approach for estimating wetting path of soil water characteristic curve
AU - Park, Hyun Su
AU - Kim, B. S.
AU - Park, S. W.
N1 - Funding Information:
This research was supported by Basic Science Research Program through the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) funded by the Ministry of Education (NRF-2017R1D1A1B 03030797)
Publisher Copyright:
Copyright © Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering, ARC 2019.All rights reserved.
PY - 2020
Y1 - 2020
N2 - The soil-water characteristic curve (SWCC) has been widely used to estimate the strength and hydraulic properties of unsaturated soils. It is characterized by the drying and wetting paths due to hysteresis. It is important to estimate the moisture capacity and characteristics of SWCCs based on the areas of hysteresis in natural and engineering soils. However, the drying path conventionally used to be adopted for applications on unsaturated soils because the measurement of the wetting path is mainly accompanied by the costly and time-consuming processes with system errors during testing. Thus, this study proposes a more practical method for estimating the wetting path through a newly established empirical approach for sandy soils as.
AB - The soil-water characteristic curve (SWCC) has been widely used to estimate the strength and hydraulic properties of unsaturated soils. It is characterized by the drying and wetting paths due to hysteresis. It is important to estimate the moisture capacity and characteristics of SWCCs based on the areas of hysteresis in natural and engineering soils. However, the drying path conventionally used to be adopted for applications on unsaturated soils because the measurement of the wetting path is mainly accompanied by the costly and time-consuming processes with system errors during testing. Thus, this study proposes a more practical method for estimating the wetting path through a newly established empirical approach for sandy soils as.
KW - Hysteresis
KW - Soil-water characteristic curve
KW - Unsaturated Soils
KW - Wetting path
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T2 - 16th Asian Regional Conference on Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering, ARC 2019
Y2 - 14 October 2019 through 18 October 2019
ER -