Particle Morphology Effect on the Soil Pore Structure

Maroof, M. Ali (2022) Particle Morphology Effect on the Soil Pore Structure. In: Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Civil Engineering.

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Abstract

The soil fabric can be expressed as a network model. Granular media voids connectivity and constriction size distribution may lead to movement of air, fluids, and solids in the soil, and therefore affect the chemical, physical and mechanical properties of soils. Understanding the soil voids areas and their inter�connection might be helpful in understanding different phenomena such as trans�port in porous media, water retention, fluid flow in the soil, soil contamination, internal erosion, suffusion, and filtration. In addition, specifying the soil voids interconnectivity can help researchers and practical engineers to provide the best rehabilitation and remediation approaches. The pore network was investigated in the current study, assuming the soil particles to be similar to discrete spheres and particles with different shapes. Also, based on the modelling techniques, the profiles of pore connectivity and constriction size distribution were assessed.

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