干湿交替过程中土壤胀缩特征的实验研究

土壤胀缩是土壤在干燥、湿润交替变化过程中所表现出的土壤容积随含水量改变的现象。本文通过测定4种土壤脱水和吸水过程中的土柱高度和直径的变化,分析了胀缩过程中土壤容积与含水量的关系及土壤的胀缩特征。结果显示:三直线模型能够很好地拟合4种土壤的收缩、膨胀过程;土壤收缩、膨胀曲线各段的特征值均小于1,这说明土壤胀缩过程中土壤容积的变化速率小于含水量的变化速率;4种土壤胀缩过程中几何因子rs大于1而小于3,且收缩初期几何因子rs等于1,表明土壤的胀缩是各向异性的,并且在土壤收缩的最初阶段只有垂直收缩。

Soil swelling-shrinking is related to the change in soil volume with water content in the processes of soil drying and wetting. The height and diameter changes of four soils were measured during drying and wetting processes in this study. Meanwhile both the relations between soil volume and water content and soil swelling-shrinking characteristics were analyzed. The results showed that the three straight lines model could fit the soil shrinking and swelling characteristic curves well. The characteristic val...