Dynamic System for Measuring Soil-Moisture Characteristics at Various Temperatures

摘要

Many methods have been devised for measuring soil moisture characteristics, but few have yielded complete characteristics--i.e., sets of values for all three properties for wetting, drying, and intermediate-reversal (scanning-curve) conditions. The isothermal moisture characteristics of soils are considerably more difficult to measure for 'real'-soils than for glass-bead media. The objective of this work was to utilize modern technical developments for performing these measurements.