Hydraulic Property Estimation Using Piezocone Results
Publication: Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering
Volume 136, Issue 3
Abstract
Governing underground water flow, hydraulic properties such as hydraulic conductivity or coefficient of consolidation are major geotechnical parameters. Determination of hydraulic properties, however, is traditionally time consuming and expensive. This research proposes an easy and economical way of determining the hydraulic properties of soils through piezocone penetration tests. Pore pressure responses of soils from piezocone penetration tests are numerically analyzed herein by the coupled theory of mixtures, which is based on the large strain elastoplasticity. Using the numerical results, the effects of input parameters are evaluated. Simple equations are also derived for a faster estimation of the hydraulic conductivity or the coefficient of consolidation of soils. The hydraulic properties predicted by these derived equations agree reasonably with the measured results.
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Acknowledgments
The writers appreciate the financial support from The University of Mississippi (Grant No. UNSPECIFIED250220871A) and Baytech Korea (Grant No. UNSPECIFIED300222587A).
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Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering
Volume 136 • Issue 3 • March 2010
Pages: 456 - 463
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Received: Aug 7, 2006
Accepted: Jul 27, 2009
Published online: Feb 12, 2010
Published in print: Mar 2010
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