Abstract
A new method to determine hydraulic conductivity and storage coefficient was developed. Here, we tried to set the boundary conditions for the experiments as simple as possible, and to estimate both the hydraulic conductivity and the storage coefficient directly by measuring both the fluid pressure and strains of the porous medium.
This technique is very simple and straightforward to get two hydraulic properties for fluid flow process through a porous medium. Also, the comparison between measured and calculated strain behaviors during the dewatering process can be used to self-check the accuracy of the obtained parameters. Our method does not need to conduct complicate inversion calculations and can be used easily for parameter dentification.
