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Central Ideas of Buckingham (1907): A Century Later

Dep. of Materials Science and Engineering, Dep. of Environmental Science, Policy and Management, Earth Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab., 210 Hearst Mining Bldg., Univ. of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720-1760

View larger version (36K): [in this window] [in a new window]   FIG. 1. Distribution of water in 48-inch columns of soil after 53 to 68 d. The figure shows imbibition (distinct from drainage) curves. (Buckingham, 1907, Fig. 7, p. 32).

View larger version (14K): [in this window] [in a new window]   FIG. 2. Schematic relation between capillary conductivity, , and water content . (Buckingham, 1907, Fig. 14, p. 43).

View larger version (36K): [in this window] [in a new window]   FIG. 3. Dependence of the parameter on water saturation (Bishop and Blight, 1963) (reproduced with kind permission of Geotechnique).