Influence of soil particle shape on saturated hydraulic conductivity

Abstract

The aim of this paper is to define the correlation between the geometry of grains and saturated hydraulic conductivity of soils. The particle shape characteristics were described by the ζ0C index (Parylak, 2000), which expresses the variability of several shape properties, such as sphericity, angularity and roughness.

Keywords

• particle shape
• saturated hydraulic conductivity
• effective pore diameter