Abstract Geosynthetic clay liners are widely used as hydraulic barrier due to their low conductivity but bentonite in the loses its effectiveness significant thermal fluxes by both diurnal and seasonal heating cooling cycles. Modified sodium carboxy methyl cellulose-based (HYPER clay) has shown better performance situations. A possible reason for this improved of HYPER based geosynthetic liner ...

abstract soil quality is an essential concept for maximum agriculture production without environmental destruction. studying soil physical quality indicators, that express soil structural stability and soil air-water balance in root zone, is one of the most important aspects of soil quality. so determination of optimal range for pore volume distribution is important and this research carried ou...

where Se is the eff ective saturation, h is the pressure head, θ is volumetric water content, θs and θr are saturated and residual volumetric water contents, respectively, and α and m (n = 1 − 1/m) are water retention parameters related to the water entry pressure and soil pore size distribution, respectively. Th e water retention parameters are usually estimated from water retention data obtai...

The unsaturated soil hydraulic properties, including soil water retention curve and hydraulic conductivity, are the crucial input parameters for simulating soil water and solute transport through the unsaturated zone at regional scales, and are expensive to measure. These properties are frequently predicted with pedotransfer functions (PTFs) using the routinely measured soil properties. 110 soi...

This work presents point pedotransfer function (PTF) models of the soil water retention curve. The developed models allowed for estimation of the soil water content for the specified soil water potentials: -0.98, -3.10, -9.81, -31.02, -491.66, and -1554.78 kPa, based on the following soil characteristics: soil granulometric composition, total porosity, and bulk density. Support Vector Machines ...

[1] Commonly, a soil’s relative permeability curve is predicted from its measured water retention curve by fitting equations that share parameters between the two curves (e.g., Brooks/Corey-Mualem and van Genuchten-Mualem). We present a new approach to predict relative permeability by direct application of measured soil water retention data without any fitting procedures. The new relative perme...

Bimodal soils with aggregates present a complex micro-structural and volumetric behaviour. This occurs because they showcase several variables, such as mineralogical, different grain sizes structures. The objective of this paper is to develop methodology for producing simple, non-mineralogical variability controlled double porosity. In sense, using Kaolin were created obtain bimodal samples. pr...

Hysteresis has been widely recognized in the soil water relationship. In this paper, a detailed review of hysteresis was performed in relation to its models. So far, different models have been suggested to describe hysteresis in the water retention curve (WRC) that could be categorized into two main groups: conceptual and empirical models. The models in the first group are based on the domain t...

Biocementation treatment consists in using bacteria or other biological agents to promote the precipitation of calcium carbonate (biocement) soil pores. When used slopes for protection against surface erosion, this creates a stiff and strong pervious cover, allowing infiltration necessary reduce water runoff. The knowledge retention properties biocemented soils is fundamental modelling but it m...