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==Reservoir Stone==
 
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[[File:Particle void ratio.png|thumb|The highest void ratio is found in uniformly graded aggregate, as there are no smaller particles to occupy the inter-particle pores.]]
 
[[File:Particle void ratio.png|thumb|The highest void ratio is found in uniformly graded aggregate, as there are no smaller particles to occupy the inter-particle pores.]]
 
[[File:Particle permeability.png|thumb|Higher permeability is found in larger, angular, uniformly graded aggregate. This is due to larger pore sizes and lower tortuosity.]]  
 
[[File:Particle permeability.png|thumb|Higher permeability is found in larger, angular, uniformly graded aggregate. This is due to larger pore sizes and lower tortuosity.]]  

Revision as of 17:42, 23 January 2018

Reservoir Stone[edit]

The highest void ratio is found in uniformly graded aggregate, as there are no smaller particles to occupy the inter-particle pores.
Higher permeability is found in larger, angular, uniformly graded aggregate. This is due to larger pore sizes and lower tortuosity.

The important characteristics of the stone within the reservoir or underdrain are the lack of fines, the void ratio and (to a lesser extent) the permeability. Porosity and permeability are directly influenced by the size, gradation and angularity of the particles [1]

  1. Judge, Aaron, "Measurement of the Hydraulic Conductivity of Gravels Using a Laboratory Permeameter and Silty Sands Using Field Testing with Observation Wells" (2013). Dissertations. 746. http://scholarworks.umass.edu/open_access_dissertations/746