Abstract
In the previous chapter, a probabilistic porous-solid model with the ability
to simulate both branches of the soil-water retention curve, was developed. In this
chapter, the model is used to interpret more realistically the results of mercury
intrusion porosimetry tests. Moreover, it is used to obtain the pore size distribution of
soils employing both branches of the soil-water retention curve as data. The numerical
and experimental comparisons for different soils show that the model approximately
reproduces the pore size distributions obtained from mercury intrusion porosimetry
tests. Finally, a procedure to fit the numerical with the experimental soil-water
retention curves in order to obtain the pore size distribution of soils is presented.