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In unsaturated swelling-shrinking soils, like clay soils, water content change results in significant volume change and drying is associated with high water content gradients.This work presents initially the soil water retention curve (SWRC) of a bentonite-silt mixture compacted at three different initial dry densities (1.27, 1.35 and 1.55 Mg.m− 3). The SWRCs were fitted by the van Genuchten (1980) and Brooks and Corey (1964) type functions. The estimated parameters were used to model the SWRC of the intermediate samples.
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Jahangir, E., Nowamooz, H., Masrouri, F. (2012). Effect of Density in the Water Retention Curve of a Compacted Silt-Bentonite Mixture. In: Mancuso, C., Jommi, C., D’Onza, F. (eds) Unsaturated Soils: Research and Applications. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-31116-1_21
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