Research Article

Exploring the Occurrence of Clogging in Highly Permeable Coarse Soils of Dam Foundations

Table 1

Basic properties of soil media and corresponding PSs of incoming sediment.

Incoming PS (mm)Dry density (/g/cm3)Porosity (ns)Soil media PS (mm)
32–6416–328–164–82–41–20.5–1

4–81.630.326T1T8
2–41.630.310T2T9T15
1–21.650.290T3T10T16T21
0.5–11.660.307T4T11T17T22T26
0.25–0.51.690.347T5T12T18T23T27T30
0.125–0.251.730.332T6T13T19T24T28T31T33
0.063–0.1251.790.341T7T14T20T25T29T32T34

Note. Ti denotes the experiments’ serial number of different incoming sediments in different soil media PSs.