Comments on “Simultaneous Measurement of Soil Penetration Resistance and Water Content with a Combined Penetrometer–TDR Moisture Probe” and “A Dynamic Cone Penetrometer for Measuring Soil Penetration Resistance”

TitleComments on “Simultaneous Measurement of Soil Penetration Resistance and Water Content with a Combined Penetrometer–TDR Moisture Probe” and “A Dynamic Cone Penetrometer for Measuring Soil Penetration Resistance”
Publication TypeMiscellaneous
Year of Publication2005
AuthorsHerrick JE
ARIS Log Number190338
Keywordsmoisture probe, penetration, penetrometer
AbstractConcurrence that by accounting for momentum, the Eq. [8] may more accurately reflect the energy transmitted from the sliding hammer to the penetrometer described in Herrick and Jones (2002).  We also agree that their new estimate of the resistance (Eq.[9]) remains "an experiemental measurement wich does not give a unique soil property; rather it is a complex measure which depend on both the penetrometer and the soil condition (Minasny and McBratnew, 2005).  http://soil.scijournals.org/cgi/reprint/69/3/925?maxtoshow=&HITS=10&hits=10&RESULTFORMAT=&andorexacttitle=and&andorexacttitleabs=and&andorexactfulltext=and&searchid=1&FIRSTINDEX=0&sortspec=relevance&volume=69&firstpage=925&resourcetype=HWCIT
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