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http://dx.doi.org/10.9719/EEG.2011.44.1.071

Analysis of Rainfall Infiltration Velocity for Unsaturated Soils by an Unsaturated Soil Column Test : Comparison of Weathered Gneiss Soil and Weathered Granite Soil  

Park, Kyu-Bo (Geologic Environment Research Division, Korea Institute of Geoscience and Mineral Resources)
Chae, Byung-Gon (Geologic Environment Research Division, Korea Institute of Geoscience and Mineral Resources)
Kim, Kyeong-Su (Geologic Environment Research Division, Korea Institute of Geoscience and Mineral Resources)
Park, Hyuek-Jin (Dept. of geoinformation Engineering, Sejong University)
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Economic and Environmental Geology / v.44, no.1, 2011 , pp. 71-82 More about this Journal
Abstract
The unsaturated soil column tests were carried out for weathered gneiss soil and weathered granite soil in order to obtain the relationship between rainfall intensity and infiltration velocity of rainfall on the basis of different unit weight conditions of soil. In this study, volumetric water content and pore water pressure were measured using TDR sensors and tensiometers at constant time interval. For the column test, three different unit weights were used as in-situ condition, loose condition and dense condition, and rainfall intensities were selected as 20 mm/h and 50 mm/h. In 20 mm/h rainfall intensity condition, average rainfall infiltration velocities for both gneiss and weathered granite soils were obtained as $2.854{\times}10^{-3}$ cm/s ~ $1.297{\times}10^{-3}$ cm/s for different unit weight values and $2.734{\times}10^{-3}$ cm/s ~ $1.707{\times}10^{-3}$ cm/s, respectively. In 50 mm/h rainfall intensity condition, rainfall infiltration velocities were obtained as $4.509{\times}10^{-3}$ cm/s ~ $2.016{\times}10^{-3}$ cm/s and $4.265{\times}10^{-3}$ cm/s ~ $3.764{\times}10^{-3}$ cm/s respectively. The test results showed that the higher rainfall intensity and the lower unit weight of soil, the faster average infiltration velocity. In addition, the weathered granite soils had faster rainfall infiltration velocities than those of the weathered gneiss soils except for the looser unit weight conditions. This is due to the fact that the weathered granite soil had more homogeneous particle size, smaller unit weight condition and larger porosity.
Keywords
rainfall infiltration velocity; unsaturated weathered soil; rainfall intensity; unit weight of soils; volumetric water contents;
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