Poster Presentation International Conference on Tomography of Materials & Structures

PREDICTION OF WATER RETENTION CURVE BY 3D GRANULOMETRIC AND VOXEL PERCOLATION METHODS (121)

Toshifumi Mukunoki 1 , Erika Shiota 1 , Yoshihisa Miyata 2 , Laurent Oxarango 3 , Anne-Julie Tinet 4 , Fabrice Golfier 4
  1. Kumamoto University, Kumamoto, KUMAMOTO, Japan
  2. National Defense Academy, Yokosuka, Japan
  3. Université Grenoble Alpes, Grenoble, France
  4. Université de Lorraine, Nancy, France

 The pore size in sandy soil obtained from 3D granulometric method (3DGM) is deduced from Young–Laplace’s law and a water retention test for the drainage process. The perforated-pore diameter originally proposed in this study, called the voxel-percolation method (VPM), are compared and then, the effectiveness of the VPM are discussed.

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