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ENTERING NEW DATA ........................................................................................................... 4
PROJECT INFORMATION.................................................................................................... 4
BOREHOLE INFORMATION................................................................................................. 6
DATASET INFORMATION.................................................................................................... 8
SOILS INFORMATION........................................................................................................ 11
1.4.1 Texture Tab ............................................................................................................... 14
1.4.2 Volume-Mass Tab...................................................................................................... 15
1.4.3 Properties Tab ........................................................................................................... 15
1.5 GRAIN SIZE INFORMATION............................................................................................. 16
1.5.1 General Tab............................................................................................................... 17
1.5.2 Sieve Data Tab ........................................................................................................ 17
1.5.3 Hydrometer Details and Hydrometer Datasheet Tabs .......................................... 21
1.5.4 Soil Classification....................................................................................................... 24
1.6 SWCC INFORMATION ....................................................................................................... 25
1.6.1 Drying SWCC Information ........................................................................................ 25
1.7 PERMEABILITY INFORMATION......................................................................................... 29
1.7.1 Saturated Permeability............................................................................................... 29
1.7.2 Unsaturated Permeability........................................................................................... 31
1.7.3 Permeability versus Void Ratio ............................................................................... 34
2 ESTIMATING UNSATURATED SOIL PROPERTIES ............................................................ 37
2.1 THEORETICAL ESTIMATION OF SWCC ........................................................................ 37
2.2 THEORETICAL ESTIMATION OF PERMEABILITY ......................................................... 39
2.2.1 Estimation of Saturated Conductivity ...................................................................... 39
2.2.2 Unsaturated Soil ........................................................................................................ 42
3 COMPARING DATA TO THE DATASET OF 6000 SOILS............................................... 50
3.1 SOIL-WATER CHARACTERISTIC CURVE ....................................................................... 50
3.1.1 Plotting Similar Soil-Water Characteristic Curves .................................................. 50
3.1.2 Estimating Packing Porosity for the Fredlund and Wilson Estimation .............. 58
3.2 PERMEABILITY.................................................................................................................... 62
3.3 STATISTICAL ESTIMATION OF KSAT ............................................................................ 62
3.3.1 Confidence of ksat using Lognormal Distribution ................................................. 63
3.3.2 ksat Estimation Confidence ...................................................................................... 67
3.4 STATISTICAL ESTIMATION OF KUNSAT....................................................................... 73
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