Water infiltration study on slopes / Low Tian Huat
study was carried out in the field using infiltrometer and in the laboratory using “sprinkler model”. Studies on infiltration have always been part of hydrology and Irrigation engineering. Infiltration forms the link between surface and subsurface hydrology. Infiltrated water must be quantified a...
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2001
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| Online Access: | http://studentsrepo.um.edu.my/8582/ http://studentsrepo.um.edu.my/8582/1/Water_Infiltration_Study_on_Slopes%2DLow_Tian_Huat__M_eng._Sc._.pdf |
| Summary: | study was carried out in the field using infiltrometer and in the laboratory using
“sprinkler model”. Studies on infiltration have always been part of hydrology and
Irrigation engineering. Infiltration forms the link between surface and subsurface
hydrology. Infiltrated water must be quantified and subtracted from the surface runoff
in flood prediction studies and surface water management. Numerous researchers
have actually incorporated infiltration into the slope stability analysis of the residual
soils, e.g., Othman (1990), Affendi et. al.(1992, 1996) and Suhaimi and Abdul
Rahman (1997). In most analysis of slope stability, the infiltration rate of the slopes
is assumed uniform throughout the slope. The soil is also assumed homogeneous
except some layered bedding problem. Anderson et. al. (1985, 1988) in the United
Kingdom, described the development of a combined soil-water slope stability model
which incorporates infiltration in slope stability analysis.
In tropical regions, most of the soils are residual soils and indirectly the slopes
will normally cut through the residual soils and exposed all the difference weathering
grades materials. The effects of the weathering grades on the infiltration rate are also
discussed in detail. |
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