Module 4 : Measuring and modeling: Soil Hydraulic Characteristics

Lecture 9: Measurement of hydraulic conductivity (Continued)

 

 

The same procedure is adopted for the data from different spatial locations and at different time instants for obtaining entire hydraulic conductivity function. The following figure gives SWCC and hydraulic conductivity data obtained on Kaolinite clay using the current procedure by Chiu and Shackelford (1998).


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Fig. 4.29 Measured hydraulic functions of Sand-Kaolin mixtures (after, Chiu and Shackelford 1998)