Effects of sample dimensions and shapes on measuring soilewater characteristic curves using pressure

• 作 者: Min Wang Lingwei Kong Meng Zan
• 机 构: CivilandComputationalEngineeringCentre,StateKeyLaboratoryofGeomechanicsandGeotechnicalEngineering
• 出 处: 岩石力学与岩土工程学报：英文版
• 发表日期: 2015年4期
• 关键词: 形状曲线 特性曲线 压力板 尺寸 样品 测量 土水特征曲线 非饱和土力学 Soil-water characteristic curve （SWCC）Press
• 基金项目: The research work was supported by the National Natural Sci- ence Foundation of China （Grant No. 10872210） and the State Key Laboratory of Geomechanics and Geotechnical Engineering （Grant No. Yl1002）.

It is well known that soilewater characteristic curve(SWCC) plays an important role in unsaturated soil mechanics, but the measurement of SWCC is inconvenient. In laboratory it requires days of testing time.For fine-grained clays, it may last for a couple