Abstract: The amount of exchangeable cation (EC) and cation types play important roles in fundamental soil behavior such as mechanical, hydraulic, chemical transport, and soil water retention (SWR). A methodology is proposed for the ...

Abstract: Conventional conceptual mechanisms for the hysteresis of soil-water retention are the ink-bottle pore neck and the solid–liquid–air-contact angle. However, these mechanisms fail to explain hydraulic hysteresis for matric ...

Abstract: Cation exchange capacity (CEC) has a significant influence on the physical and chemical behavior of soil. Quantification of the CEC is an essential yet challenging task. A new methodology for the determination of the CECs ...