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The unsaturated hydraulic conductivity of a silty sand at different initial void ratios is measured using the instantaneous profile method. The variation of the suction and volumetric water content is recorded during the infiltration process as a function of time. Accordingly, an infiltration column was developed with a height of 600 mm and an inner diameter of 170 mm. The suction and volumetric water content were measured simultaneously every 100 mm along the column by means of small tensiometers and TDRs, respectively. Hydraulic conductivity is calculated by dividing the water flow velocity by the hydraulic gradient. The soil is reconstituted from Ruedlingen (Canton Schaffhausen, Switzerland), where landslide triggering experiments were carried out in October 2008 and March 2009. The hydraulic conductivity functions are determined and the laboratory values are compared to the in-situ measurements of hydraulic conductivity carried out in the course of the landslide triggering experiments.
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Askarinejad, A., Beck, A., Casini, F., Springman, S.M. (2012). Unsaturated Hydraulic Conductivity of a Silty Sand with the Instantaneous Profile Method. In: Mancuso, C., Jommi, C., D’Onza, F. (eds) Unsaturated Soils: Research and Applications. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-31343-1_27
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