Field permeability at shallow depth in a compacted fill

Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers: Geotechnical Engineering

Volumn 164, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 211-221

  Li, Lisa J H ^a,b   Zhang, Limin ^a   Kwong, Ben C P ^c  

^a HONG KONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Hong Kong)

^b HARBIN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^c ARUP   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Field testing monitoring; Hydraulics hydrodynamics

Indexed keywords

CELL TEST; COEFFICIENTS OF VARIATIONS; COMPACTED FILL; DESICCATION CRACKS; FIELD PERMEABILITY; FIELD TEST; MACROPORES; PERMEAMETER TEST; PERMEAMETERS; PREFERENTIAL FLOWS; SAMPLE SIZES; SHALLOW DEPTHS; SILTY CLAY; SURFACE SOIL; WATER TABLES;

CRACKS; GROUNDWATER FLOW; HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY;

MECHANICAL PERMEABILITY;

DESICCATION; FILL; HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; HYDRAULICS; HYDRODYNAMICS; INFILTRATION; ONE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; PARAMETERIZATION; PERMEABILITY; SILTY CLAY; TENSIOMETER; WATER TABLE;

EID: 79952733822     PISSN: 13532618     EISSN: 17518563     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1680/geng.10.00056     Document Type: Article

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