The projected intensification of agriculture to meet food targets of a rapidly growing world
population are likely to accentuate already acute problems of soil compaction and …

Electrical resistivity is sensitive to various properties of concrete, such as water content.
Usually used on the surface of old structures, devices for measuring such properties could …

Although many unsaturated soil experiments have successfully delivered positive outcomes,
most studies just concisely illustrated sensor techniques, because their main objectives …

The strength of unsaturated soil is defined by the soil water retention behavior and soil
suction acting inside the soil matrix. In order to obtain the suction and moisture profile in the …

A new integrated experimental and theoretical framework to simultaneously measure
mechanical, hydraulic and high frequency dielectric properties of soil during shrinkage was …

Sedimentation along with consolidation processes dictate the in situ engineering and
hydraulic behavior of a particulate system such as soil. With this in view, the present …

In this paper, we propose a novel approach to broadband model relative effective complex
permittivity of soils (augmented broadband complex dielectric mixture model). The approach …

In this paper, the fractal dimension of coal surfaces was calculated using the fractal theory,
and the influence of different surfactants on the fractal dimension of coal surface was …

A new type of soil moisture sensor using spatial frequency domain transmissometry (SFDT)
was evaluated. This sensor transmits and receives ultrawideband (1 to 6 GHz) radio waves …

To answer long-standing questions about how plants use and regulate water, an affordable,
noninvasive way to determine local root water uptake (RWU) is required. Here, we present a …