Concept of Limit Soil-Retained State for Developing of Novel Filtration Criteria
Publication: Journal of Materials in Civil Engineering
Volume 35, Issue 10
Abstract
Geotextile filters have been used as substitution of granular filters for decades. Despite their technical and commercial success, the behavior of geotextile filters can be quite complex and difficult to understand, especially the erosion or clogging problems that lead to instability of a filtration system. This paper focuses on the influence of soil particle migration on the permeability of the filtration system and whether the system will be unstable due to excessive erosion of soil particles when a large opening–size geotextile is used as a filter. A series of model tests with a dimension of under different hydraulic conditions were carried out. The microscopic image analysis method was used for the particle-grading analysis. Finally, from the experiments performed, the modified research approach for criteria for determining the instability of the filtration system due to excessive erosion of soil particles and the modified research approach for criteria for determining the limit soil-retained state were proposed and discussed.
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All data, models, and code generated or used during the study appear in the published paper.
Acknowledgments
This work was supported by research grants from National Key Research and Development Program of China (Grant No. 2021YFC2901701) and the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC Grant Nos. 41472039 and 51109168). The authors would like to acknowledge the support from Prof. Guangxin Li and Prof. Lun Chen at Tsinghua University for this research.
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Received: May 6, 2022
Accepted: Mar 10, 2023
Published online: Jul 24, 2023
Published in print: Oct 1, 2023
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