REPRESENTATION OF COMPACTED CLAY MINIFABRIC USING RANDOM NETWORKS. DISCUSSIONS AND CLOSURE

Two discussions of a paper with the aforementioned title by L.N. Reddi and S. Thangavadivelu, published in this journal (Volume 122, Number 11, November 1996), are presented. The first discusser questions the validity of Equation (11) in the authors' paper, which calculates cluster radii with the inversion method, pointing out that the cluster diameters generated by the inversion method and the quadratic formula are substantially different from the pore diameters, which are the experimental cluster diameters. Discussers Chen and Gabr report several possible extensions to the authors' study, including the introduction of a cutoff length to remove short pores and determining permeability directly from the network by simulating flow through individual pores within a selected domain. Discussions are followed by closure from the authors.

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• Authors:
  • Atuahene, F
  • Chen, J
  • Gabr, M A
• Publication Date: 1999-4

Language

• English

Media Info

• Features: Appendices; References; Tables;
• Pagination: p. 335-337
• Serial:
  • Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering
  • Volume: 125
  • Issue Number: 4
  • Publisher: American Society of Civil Engineers
  • ISSN: 1090-0241
  • Serial URL: http://ojps.aip.org/gto

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Compacted clays; Fabrics; Hydraulics; Mathematical models; Microstructure; Permeability; Pore size distribution; Porosity
• Subject Areas: Geotechnology; Highways; I42: Soil Mechanics;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00763548
• Record Type: Publication
• Contract Numbers: MSS-9396264, CMS-9701785
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: May 13 1999 12:00AM