Abstract:
It has just begun to study the mechanism and design method of broadly graded soil filter. By tests in this paper the following main question are solved:①to determine the equivalent grain size of critical filter under the principle of forming self filtration layer in the interface between filter and soil to make soil seepage stability; ②the general model of cohessionless soil fiter design is used in the filter design of broadly graded soil, because the seepage stability of broadly graded soil with coefficent of uniformity greater than 100, is similar with that of cohessionless soil; ③the appearing propability of control size changes with seepage stability of broadly graded soil, and it is not a constant, so the method to design control size, d k=d(<2)p.70 is presented in the paper;④ the criterion for filter design is D 20 ≤(4~7)d k.