Determination of soil-water characteristic curves

• Main Author: Tan, Ee Jin.
• Other Authors: Leong Eng Choon
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2010
• Subjects: DRNTU::Engineering::Civil engineering::Geotechnical
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/40126
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Soils from arid and semi-arid regions, compacted soils and residual soils are examples of unsaturated soils encountered in engineering practice. Unsaturated soils have negative pore-water pressures or matric suction when referenced to pore-air pressure. By the use of a miniature tensiometer for mea...