Soil Water Potential: Concepts and Expressions

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Explores water properties in soil, including capillary pressure and hydraulic charge measurement.

Covers the estimation of soil water stock and irrigation management.

Covers the steady flow through the unsaturated zone and explores special cases.

Covers suction, shear strength, desiccation consequences, and retaining structures in unsaturated soils.

Explores Darcy's law in saturated soil, hydraulic conductivity, flow rates, and soil properties.

Explores unsaturated soil behavior, emphasizing water retention and mechanical properties.

Explores the design and analysis of retaining structures, lateral earth pressure, and unsaturated soils.

Explains water potential in soil, suction in unsaturated soil, and their importance in water quality modeling.

Explores the critical state concept in geomechanics, focusing on unsaturated soils and Terzaghi's effective stress validity.

Discusses Darcy's law, tortuosity factor, deviations, and conductivity measurement methods.