Knowing the water transport phenomena is fundamental for understanding durability of cement-based materials. The moisture content within cementitious materials primary importance because it has a direct influence on mechanical (shrinkage, creep) and chemical (penetration aggressive agents) degradation. Many models based determination transfer properties material under study already exist but re...

Abstract A soil water characteristic curve (SWCC) model named as discrete-continuous multimodal van Genuchten with a convenient parameter calibration method is developed to describe the relationship between suction and content of complex pore structure. The modality number N SWCC in proposed can be any positive integer (the so-called or -modal SWCC). unique set parameters determined by combinin...

Field capacity (FC) is a fundamental parameter in soil and water engineering hydrologic modeling. Despite its relevance, the situ determination of this not standardized by indirect methods dubious. This study presents method calculation FC corresponding suction (hFC), using van Genuchten equation for retention pedotransfer function Ottoni Filho et al. (2016) FC. The methodology was applied to H...