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Understanding the Changes in Hydraulic Conductivity Values of Coarse- and Fine-Grained Porous Media Mixtures

Zuhier Alakayleh    
T. Prabhakar Clement and Xing Fang    

Resumen

Low permeability clay-sand mixtures are often used to construct hydraulic barriers to prevent contaminated water leaching from landfills and other waste disposal sites from polluting local groundwater aquifers. In order to engineer effective hydraulic barriers, a proper knowledge of the hydraulic conductivity of clay-sand mixtures is required. While there are several empirical models available in the literature that can be used to predict reductions in hydraulic conductivity values of coarse sand due to the presence of clay and other fine minerals, all these models require measurement of multiple physical properties of the porous media. The resulting empirical expressions have several parameters that need to be individually evaluated using multiple soil characterization tests. In this study, we propose a single parameter model that can be used to capture the variations in hydraulic conductivity value of different types of porous media mixtures using a scalable modeling framework. Several laboratory tests were conducted to measure the hydraulic conductivity values of a variety of coarse and fine glass bead mixtures. The coarse glass beads were used to simulate sand and small glass beads were used to simulate fine minerals such as silt and clay. The model results were further validated using the data derived from experiments conducted with natural sand and clay mixtures, and also using multiple literature-derived datasets. Our results show that the proposed model is a useful tool for describing the hydraulic conductivity values of various types of coarse- and fine-grained porous media mixtures.

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