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Permeability Test Examples

This document contains 6 worked examples of calculating permeability and hydraulic conductivity using equations from Chapter 7. The examples include constant-head and falling-head permeability tests, calculating seepage rates through permeable soil layers, and finding flow rates through multi-layered soils. The final example calculates the rate of water supply needed to maintain a constant head difference across a three-layered soil sample.

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Permeability Test Examples

This document contains 6 worked examples of calculating permeability and hydraulic conductivity using equations from Chapter 7. The examples include constant-head and falling-head permeability tests, calculating seepage rates through permeable soil layers, and finding flow rates through multi-layered soils. The final example calculates the rate of water supply needed to maintain a constant head difference across a three-layered soil sample.

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Chapter 7

Permeability

WORKED EXAMPLES
Example 7.1
Refer to the constant-head permeability test
arrangement shown in Figure 7.5. A test gives
these values
• L = 30 cm
• A = area of the specimen = 177 cm2
• Constant-head difference, h = 50 cm
• Water collected in a period of 5 min = 350 cm3
Calculate the hydraulic conductivity in cm/sec.

Solution. From Eq. 7-9

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Example 7.2
For a falling-head permeability test, the
following values are given:
• Length of specimen = 8 in.
• Area of soil specimen = 1.6 in.2
• Area of standpipe = 0.06 in.2
• Head difference at time t = 0 = 20 in.
• Head difference at time t = 180 sec = 12 in.
Determine the hydraulic conductivity of the
soil in in./sec.
Solution. From Eq. 7-10
Example 7.3
A permeable soil layer is
underlain by an impervious
layer, as shown in Figure 7.7a.
With 𝑘 = 5.3 × 10−5 𝑚/𝑠𝑒𝑐 for
the permeable layer, calculate
the rate of seepage through it in
𝑚3 /ℎ𝑟/𝑚 width if H = 3 m and a
= 8°.

Solution
Example 7.4
Find the flow rate in m3/sec/m
length (at right angles to the
cross section shown) through the
permeable soil layer shown in
Figure 7.8 given H = 8 m, H1 = 3
m, h = 4 m, L = 50 m, a = 8°, and
k = 0.08 cm/sec.

Solution.
Example 7.5
A layered soil is shown in Figure 7.19.
Given: 𝐻1 = 2 𝑚 𝑘1 = 10−4 𝑐𝑚/𝑠𝑒𝑐
𝐻2 = 3 𝑚 𝑘2 = 3.2 × 10−2 𝑐𝑚/𝑠𝑒𝑐
𝐻3 = 4 𝑚 𝑘3 = 4.1 × 10−5 𝑐𝑚/𝑠𝑒𝑐
Estimate the ratio of equivalent hydraulic
𝑘𝐻 𝑒𝑞
conductivity,
𝑘𝑉 𝑒𝑞

Solution. From eq. 7-14

From eq. 7-15

Hence,
Example 7.6
Figure 7.20 shows three layers
of soil in a tube that is
100 𝑚𝑚 × 100 𝑚𝑚 in cross
section. Water is supplied to
maintain a constant-head
Difference of 300 mm across the
sample. The hydraulic
conductivities of the soils in the
direction of flow through them
are as follows:

Solution. From eq. 7-15

Find the rate of water supply in


cm3/hr.

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