Advances in Civil Engineering

Research Article

Experimental Study on Permeability Anisotropy of Unsaturated Compacted Loess

Table 5

Calculated permeability coefficient of unsaturated compacted loess.


ρ_d = 1.40 g/cm³			ρ_d = 1.50 g/cm³			ρ_d = 1.60 g/cm³			ρ_d = 1.70 g/cm³
/kPa	/10⁻⁶cm/s	k_h /10⁻⁶cm/s	/kPa	/10⁻⁶cm/s	k_h/10⁻⁶cm/s	/kPa	/10⁻⁶cm/s	k_h/10⁻⁶cm/s	/kPa	/10⁻⁶cm/s	k_h/10⁻⁶cm/s

0	0 87.769	109.03	0	0 24.213	5.848	0	0 9.625	16.083	0	0 3.205	6.251
1.331	36.324	45.122	1.474	9.994	14.797	1.632	3.965	6.625	1.802	1.322	2.579
4.328	7.349	9.130	4.806	1.999	2.960	5.355	0.786	1.313	5.928	0.265	0.517
7.893	2.972	3.691	8.981	0.812	1.202	9.991	0.319	0.533	11.109	0.110	0.214
12.527	1.356	1.687	13.919	0.377	0.559	15.763	0.149	0.249	17.211	0.052	0.102
17.996	0.637	0.791	20.478	0.180	0.266	22.811	0.072	0.120	24.854	0.025	0.050
26.364	0.293	0.364	28.907	0.085	0.125	32.227	0.034	0.057	34.245	0.012	0.024
37.163	0.129	0.160	40.622	0.037	0.055	44.833	0.015	0.0256	48.691	0.0055	0.0107
52.427	0.0508	0.063	55.537	0.015	0.0219	62.718	0.006	0.0104	66.872	0.0023	0.0044
75.263	0.0162	0.020	82.518	0.0047	0.0069	88.491	0.002	0.0034	93.627	0.00076	0.0015
114.145	0.0031	0.0038	123.236	0.00089	0.0013	129.001	0.0004	0.00067	133.821	0.00015	0.0003