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Filtering by: Committee Member Weber, Leonard J. Degree Field Civil Engineering

Hydraulic functions of soils from physical experiments and their applications

Creator:

Su, Charles

Abstract:

Based upon the Pearson Type VIII distribution function, a general retention function which relates the saturation to the capillary pressure in disturbed soils has been discovered. This simple and yet complete function has been shown to describe precisely the imbibition as well as the drainage branch of the retention curve....

Resource Type:

Dissertation