Sentence examples for soil suction from inspiring English sources
When water enters the soil, the soil suction gradually decreases.
To account for this decrease in soil suction for modeling purposes, a set of soil suction values (i.e. 1000, 500, 180, and 38 kPa) were modeled.
Figure 1 gives the variation in soil suction at selected depths with respect to time.
The plot indicates a significant influence of the change in soil suction on the soil displacements.
Open image in new window Fig. 14 The maximum displacements versus the variation in soil suction.
The field soil suction was measured to be around 2000 kPa.
Figure 4 shows the soil water characteristic curve (SWCC) of Regina clay predicted using the Fredlund and Xing Fitting of the laboratory measurements of soil suctions.
Suction at the wilting point increases the soil matric suction and ground settlement, whereas the saturation permeability decreases the maximum soil matric suction generated.
In addition, the significance of soil matrix suction, induced stress due to backfill soil compaction, shear resistance parameters, on the wall block facing is discussed.
The main coefficients of volume change were calculated as a function of the soil matric suction and net normal stress as shown in Fig. 7 (Fredlund and Rahardjo, 1993).
The trial involved three furrow irrigation methods (conventional furrow, conventional furrow with cutback, and alternate furrow), two mulch treatments (without mulch and straw mulch), and three irrigation schedules (5-day interval, irrigation at 30 and 60 kPa soil moisture suction).
