Assessing the Potential of Internal Erosion and Suffusion of Granular Soils
- 1 May 2011
- journal article
- Published by American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) in Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering
- Vol. 137 (5), 550-554
- https://doi.org/10.1061/(asce)gt.1943-5606.0000447
Abstract
This study presents a new empirical criterion for assessing the potential of internal erosion and suffusion of granular soils. This method considers the bimodal structure of a soil having a primary coarse fabric and loose finer particles based on the porosities influenced by the particle size distribution and the degree of compaction. By comparing the representative particle size of a loose finer fraction with the controlling constriction size of a primary coarse fabric, a distinct boundary between internally stable and unstable soils with respect to internal erosion may be found.This publication has 12 references indexed in Scilit:
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