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A study was conducted to investigate the shrinkage behaviour of clay soils of Oltrepo Pavese (Northern Apennines – Italy), which has experienced, in the last decades, many drought periods. The shrinkage characteristics were studied in laboratory with different methods. A quantitative description of the crack patterns at the soil surface was done in a site corresponding to a natural soil, which was used in the laboratory tests.
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Meisina, C. (2012). Shrinkage Characterization of Some Italian Clay Soils. In: Mancuso, C., Jommi, C., D’Onza, F. (eds) Unsaturated Soils: Research and Applications. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-31116-1_43
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