Research Article

Calculation of Capillary Rise Height of Soils by SWCC Model

Table 1

Main physical indexes of fine-grained soils.

Soil samplesParticle size (mm) and content (%)
≥0.5 mm0.25∼0.05 mm0.05∼0.01 mm0.01∼0.002 mm≤0.002 mm

CL1.8822.441.819.40.8%13.4%21.7%34.5%29.6%
CH1.8427.955.627.70.3%9.5%17.5%37.1%35.6%
ML1.9318.228.38.13.9%29.6%31.3%25.4%7.8%
CHE1.8328.365.236.90.2%7.3%16.5%34.8%41.2%