… , generally soils experience many drying and wetting cycles. The main objective of this
study is to evaluate the effects of drying-wetting cycles on SWCC of undisturbed residual soils. …

… wetting curves and the secondary curves, ie, the curves between drying and wetting curves
(… In this paper, the drying and wetting SWCCs for five sandy soils were tested and best-fitted …

… changes in soil water content. It can be intrinsically related to … the drying process from fully
saturated soils, and then wetting … of drying and wetting progressing curves with time for a silty …

… second section deals with apparent but important factors influencing the SWCC. The critical
… Typical drying and wetting SWCCs are presented in Fig. 1, which indicates a continuous S -…

… and the various factors influencing the SWCC have not … compacted wet of optimum and
resists the de-saturation (drying)… and wet of optimum) and stress history, the soil-water charac…

… It is known that the soil-water characteristic curve (SWCC) of unsaturated soils is hysteretic.
The engineering properties of unsaturated soils during the drying process are different from …

… two soils including Berlin coarse sand (soil codes 1460 and 1461) and Berlin medium sand
(… model to wetting process as the mechanisms for drying and wetting processes are different. …

… The soil-water characteristic curve (… sandy soils were prepared from decomposed granite
(Masado) by sieving it with sieves of opening size of 850 μm, 425 μm and 250 μm, and the soils …

… In this paper, the domestic sandy soils are selected and the … As only limited data for both
the drying and the wetting SWCCs … More research is required on the estimation of the wetting …

… clay particles in clayey sandy soils during wet and dry cycles … Factors affected during the
wet–dry cycle include soil shear … the changing pattern of soil–water characteristic curves [15,16,…