Particle Mobilization and Piping Erosion of Granular Soil Under Various Fluid Characteristics and Flow Conditions

Ming Xiao, Benjamin Adams, Asghar Gholizadeh-Vayghan, Yuetan Ma

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Abstract

This paper presents the soil’s internal erosion in earthen embankments due to seepage with various physicochemical fluid characteristics and flow conditions. The paper includes two components: (1) experimental study on the relative and interactive effects of fluid’s viscosity, pH, and ionic strength on the incipient motion of a single granular particle under laminar flow condition, and (2) bench-scale piping erosion progression of sand considering the same seepage’s physicochemical characteristics under turbulent flow. An innovative experimental setup was designed and constructed that can simultaneously adjust fluid’s viscosity, pH, and ionic strength and provide repeatable test results on particle’s incipient motion and soil erosion rate index. This research showed the relative and interactive effects of three physicochemical characteristics (viscosity, pH and ionic strength) of permeating fluid on particle mobilization and on piping erosion of a sandy soil. This paper suggests in the field evaluation of piping in earthen embankments, if the subsurface seepage is known to possess different physicochemical characteristics from those of tap water or distilled water, the fluid’s properties should be considered in the laboratory tests of piping.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationDam Breach Modelling and Risk Disposal - Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Embankment Dam, ICED 2020
EditorsJian-Min Zhang, Rui Wang, Limin Zhang
PublisherSpringer
Pages56-74
Number of pages19
ISBN (Print)9783030463502
DOIs
StatePublished - 2020
Event1st International Conference on Embankment Dams, ICED 2020 - Beijing, China
Duration: Jun 5 2020Jun 7 2020

Publication series

NameSpringer Series in Geomechanics and Geoengineering
ISSN (Print)1866-8755
ISSN (Electronic)1866-8763

Conference

Conference1st International Conference on Embankment Dams, ICED 2020
Country/TerritoryChina
CityBeijing
Period6/5/206/7/20

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • Geotechnical Engineering and Engineering Geology
  • Mechanics of Materials

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