Different methodologies have been developed for establishing the soil-water characteristic
curve, SWCC. These methodologies employ measurement of the soil suction with the help of …

Measurement of soil suction for developing soil-water characteristic curve, SWCC, is a
laborious and time-consuming task. On the other hand, commercially available databases …

The measurement of suction in unsaturated soils is essential in many areas of geotechnical
engineering like modeling hydraulic properties or analyzing shrink-swell characteristics from …

Soil-water characteristic curves (SWCCs) play a key role in the determination of unsaturated
soil property functions for use with predictive numerical models. Most studies on the soil …

Modeling the behavior of unsaturated soils necessitates the measurement of soil suction
and the establishment of its variation with the water content, which is commonly known as …

The relationship between soil suction and water content, popularly known as the soil water
characteristic curve (SWCC) provides significant information to evaluate the behaviour of …

Soil–water characteristic curve (SWCC) is an important unsaturated soil property relating the
water content of a soil to soil suction and it is conventionally measured using Tempe cell …

The soil moisture characteristic (SMC) curve of a soil describes the relationship between the
soil suction (tension in the soil pore water) and its water content. The majority of traditional …

A new, automated apparatus is proposed for calculating the Soil-Water Characteristic Curve
(SWCC), representing a simple and easily applied testing device for continuous …

The traditional methods for determining the soil-water characteristic curve (SWCC) in the full
suction range always takes several months. To better guide the engineering practice with …