Fig. 1. A typical continuously measured shrinkage curve (SC) of a reconstructed soil sample using three hundred points of measurement. Points A, B, C, D, E, and F are the transition points of the shrinkage phases as determined by parametric modeling of the SC according to the exponential model (XP) of Braudeau et al. (1999). LN, CV refers to as linear and curvilinear phases, respectively.