View Item 
      •   Home
      • 1. Schools
      • College of Engineering
      • School of Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE)
      • CEE Journal Articles
      • View Item
      •   Home
      • 1. Schools
      • College of Engineering
      • School of Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE)
      • CEE Journal Articles
      • View Item
      JavaScript is disabled for your browser. Some features of this site may not work without it.
      Subject Lookup

      Browse

      All of DR-NTUCommunities & CollectionsTitlesAuthorsBy DateSubjectsThis CollectionTitlesAuthorsBy DateSubjects

      My Account

      Login

      Statistics

      Most Popular ItemsStatistics by CountryMost Popular Authors

      About DR-NTU

      A modified pressure plate apparatus

      Thumbnail
      Author
      Leong, Eng Choon
      Tripathy, Sudhiranjan
      Rahardjo, Harianto
      Date of Issue
      2004
      School
      School of Civil and Environmental Engineering
      Version
      Accepted version
      Abstract
      Soil-water characteristic curves of soils can be measured in the laboratory using conventional testing apparatus such as the pressure plate. This paper describes a modified pressure plate apparatus using a commercially available high air entry ceramic plate. The modified pressure plate apparatus has several advantages over the conventional pressure plate apparatus: It can be used to determine both the drying and wetting soil-water characteristic curves, whereas the conventional pressure plate can usually determine only the drying soil-water characteristic curve; the water reservoir beneath the ceramic plate ensures that the ceramic plate is fully saturated at all times; air appearing in the water reservoir due to air diffusion through the ceramic disk can be flushed out by the cross-flow system during the test without stoppage of the test.
      Subject
      DRNTU::Engineering::Civil engineering::Geotechnical
      Type
      Journal Article
      Series/Journal Title
      Geotechnical testing journal
      Rights
      © 2004 ASTM
      Collections
      • CEE Journal Articles
      http://dx.doi.org/10.1520/GTJ11053
      Get published version (via Digital Object Identifier)

      Show full item record


      NTU Library, Nanyang Avenue, Singapore 639798 © 2011 Nanyang Technological University. All rights reserved.
      DSpace software copyright © 2002-2015  DuraSpace
      Contact Us | Send Feedback
      Share |    
      Theme by 
      Atmire NV
       

       


      NTU Library, Nanyang Avenue, Singapore 639798 © 2011 Nanyang Technological University. All rights reserved.
      DSpace software copyright © 2002-2015  DuraSpace
      Contact Us | Send Feedback
      Share |    
      Theme by 
      Atmire NV
       

       

      DCSIMG