FANG Ying-guang, CHEN Jian, GU Ren-guo, et al. Applicability of clay permeability based on modified Kozeny-Carman equation by effective specific surface area[J]. 2020, 41(8): 2547-2554.
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FANG Ying-guang, CHEN Jian, GU Ren-guo, et al. Applicability of clay permeability based on modified Kozeny-Carman equation by effective specific surface area[J]. 2020, 41(8): 2547-2554.DOI: 10.16285/j.rsm.2019.2157.
Applicability of clay permeability based on modified Kozeny-Carman equation by effective specific surface area
Clay contains a variety of clay minerals. The charged surface of clay particles makes the clay particles show active hydraulic properties
which can lead to the formation of a double layer on the surface of the soil. So clay particles are stacked on each other under various forces during the deposition process to form non-connected pore structures such as isolated pores and blind pores. As a result
when seepage occurs in the soil
the fluid only flows through the interconnected pores
but not through the unconnected pores. Unfortunately
the Kozeny-Carman equation (K-C equation) uses the total specific surface area of the particles as seepage specific surface
therefore
the K-C equation is not suitable for calculating the hydraulic conductivity of clay any more. In this paper
only the pore specific surface area of the interconnected pores in which the fluid can flow through is taken as the seepage effective specific surface area. And then
the seepage effective specific surface area is used to modify the original K-C equation. Test results show that the modified K-C equation has obvious advantages over the original K-C equation in describing the seepage law of clay.