Prefabricated Vertical Drains Flow Resistance under Vacuum Conditions
Publication: Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering
Volume 126, Issue 1
Abstract
The results of experimental research are presented and discussed with focus on the internal well resistance of prefabricated vertical drains (PVD) under vacuum-induced water flow. Measured results included fluid flow rates for two different cross-sectional hydraulic profiles (Types I and II PVDs). Experimental results indicated linear relationships, independent of the PVD widths, between extracted fluid velocity and the applied hydraulic gradient. Data showed a laminar flow regime to predominate for test velocities corresponding to hydraulic gradients <0.5. The larger nominal hydraulic radius of the Type II PVD is credited with providing a flow rate equal to approximately 3.2 times that of the Type I PVD at approximately the same operating total head. There was no apparent dependency of the transmissivity θ on the width or lengths (3, 4, and 5 m) of the PVDs tested. In the case of the 100-mm-wide Type I PVD, θ = 618 mm2/s was estimated from the measured data versus θ = 1,996 mm2/s for Type II PVD with the same dimensions.
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Received: Aug 19, 1996
Published online: Jan 1, 2000
Published in print: Jan 2000
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