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Salager et al. (2010) developed a model that simulates the behaviour of main drying curves of unsaturated soils including the density effect. The model provides good results, but contains a huge number of parameters. To reduce this number, we propose slight changes in the original model and the predictions are validated by comparison with existing experimental data.
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Bellia, Z., Ghembaza, M.S., Rabhi, M. (2012). Hydric Model of Unsaturated Soils. In: Mancuso, C., Jommi, C., D’Onza, F. (eds) Unsaturated Soils: Research and Applications. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-31343-1_8
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