Relationships for centrifugal modelling of seepage and surface flow effects on embankment dams

Abstract

Laut (1975) considered how the velocity of laminar seepage through soil is affected by the increase of self-weight that occurs in centrifugal modelling. He concluded that the velocity u of seepage through a model subjected to an increase in self-weight of N times will be greater than that experienced in a fullscale, geometrically similar prototype when the model and prototype have identical soils, hydraulic gradients and pore fluids in the ratio