Estimating hydraulic conductivity from piezocone soundings

Geotechnique

Volumn 61, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 699-708

  Chai, J C ^a   Agung, P M A ^a   Hino, T ^a   Igaya, Y ^b   Carter, J P ^c  

^a SAGA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Ariake Sea Coastal Road Development Office ^*  (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Clays; Sands

Indexed keywords

CLAY SOIL; CONE PENETRATION; DARCY'S LAW; FINE GRAINED; FINITE TIME; LOGARITHMIC SCALE; PIEZOCONE PENETRATION TESTS; PIEZOCONE SOUNDING; SOIL TYPES; TEST DATA; WATER MOVEMENTS; YOKOHAMA , JAPAN;

CLAY;

HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY;

CLAY SOIL; CONE PENETRATION TEST; DARCY LAW; HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; SANDY SOIL; SOIL TEST;

HONSHU; JAPAN; KANAGAWA; KANTO; KYUSHU; SAGA; YOKOHAMA;

EID: 79960721815     PISSN: 00168505     EISSN: 17517656     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1680/geot.10.P.009     Document Type: Article

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