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  • Essay / Determination of hydraulic conductivity - 671

    The first three points of the graph are located lower because air has been trapped in the core. The hydraulic conductivity becomes almost constant after around twenty minutes. There is no need to convert the average hydraulic conductivity to standard temperature because we worked under the standard temperature. The average hydraulic conductivity is 2.8 ∙ 10-5. According to the saturated hydraulic conductivity classes, modified after Kutilek and Nielsen (1994), it is generally a silty sand. Soil classified according to the permeability classes proposed by O'Neal (1949) indicates that the class is moderately rapid. Water will flow quickly through the soil, so when irrigation or drainage applied to that soil it will likely flow quickly, but to be sure the infiltration rate must be calculated based on the difference in hydraulic load. There are two important properties that determine hydraulic conductivity: the geometry of the pore system and the intrinsic properties. Ground geometry exists from texture and st...