A New Sampling Method of Vertical Infiltration Water in Unsaturated Soil without Disturbing Soil Moisture Condition.

Simplified stochastic soil-moisture models: a look at infiltration

A simplified, vertically-averaged model of soil moisture interpreted at the daily time scale and forced by a stochastic process of instantaneous rainfall events is compared with a vertically-averaged model which uses a nonoverlapping rectangular pulse rainfall model and a more physically based description of infiltration. The models are compared with respect to the importance of short time-scal...

Behavior of Unsaturated Layered Soil Columns during Infiltration

This paper presents the laboratory test results of vertical infiltration on two soil columns of finer over coarser soils subject to simulated rainfalls under conditions of no-ponding at the surface and constant head at the bottom. The main objectives were to evaluate the effect of rainfall intensity and duration; and to provide experimental evidence for soil water redistribution and hysteresis....

Instability of unsaturated soil slopes due to infiltration

It is widely known that rainfall induces a rise of the groundwater level and an decrease in matric suction (negative pore water pressure) that results in slope failure. However, in many situations where shallow failures are concerned, it has been noted that there is not much evidence of a rise in the groundwater level sufficient to trigger the observed slope failures. Instead, the failures have...

Assessing Relation of Soil Hydrophobicity and Soil Water Content and Determining Threshold Moisture of Organic Soil Samples

Soil water content is the most effective factor associated with the hydrophobic and hydrophilic changes in a soil. Water repellency in soils, is not a permanent feature; it can be reached in the dry season and reduced or eliminated in the wet season It can be said that in terms of moisture, there is a critical region that is defined as the threshold moisture content, where in lower moisture, th...

Modeling effect of initial soil moisture on sorptivity and infiltration