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Particularly, for granular soils, several correlations are available in the literature for predicting the coefficient of permeability of soils as a function of particle size, properties of pore fluid, void ratio, shape of particles, etc. In this paper, a comparative study of some of the existing predictive models is presented to examine how far these are applicable to natural sands. With the above in view, coefficients of permeability of two different types of sands (sub-angular Ganga sand and rounded Ennore sand) were found out with varying void ratios by constant head laboratory test. The laboratory test data is compared with various predictive models available in the literature. This study highlights the fact that there exists no unique relationship that would be the panacea for predicting the coefficient of permeability values for all types of soils. The expressions as given by Kozeny–Carman, Taylor and Chapuis are rational and scientific. These may be used for quick predictions of the coefficient of permeability, but the coefficients and parameters appearing in these equations need to be properly determined specific to the concerned soil.
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Acharya, I.P., Anubhav, Basudhar, P.K. (2021). Predictive Models for Estimating the Coefficient of Permeability for Sands. In: Patel, S., Solanki, C.H., Reddy, K.R., Shukla, S.K. (eds) Proceedings of the Indian Geotechnical Conference 2019. Lecture Notes in Civil Engineering, vol 133. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-33-6346-5_5
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