Geotechnical Engineering Practice Test 4

1. What is the relationship between permeability and viscosity of water?

2. Which of the following test is commonly adopted for determining soil permeability of soil formations?

3. In falling head permeability test, change in the head at a time interval dt is denoted as ___________

4. If the discharge velocity is 4*10^-7cm/s and the porosity is 33%, then the seepage velocity will be _______

5. Seepage velocity is inversely proportional to hydraulic gradient.

6. The co-efficient of permeability of fine sand is ____________

7. The hydraulic radius R_H of circular tube is given by ________

8. Darcy’s law of linear dependency is valid for only _______ flow conditions in soil.

9. Darcy’s law is valid as long as it is equal to or less than ____________

10. The hydraulic radius R_H is related with the voids ratio as ________