Question: Filtration design 3 . An earth dam is being constructed from a granular shell and a fine - grained core with the grain size distribution

Filtration design
3. An earth dam is being constructed from a granular shell and a fine-grained core with the grain size distribution curves shown below. Sketch an allowable grain size region for a uniformly graded filter that is coarser than the fine grained core soil that will prevent the fine grained core soil from infiltrating into the filter using the criterion D15,filter4-5 times of D85,core,, and is adequately permeable relative to the core using the criterion D15,filter>4-5 times of D15,corc.. Based on the grain size distributions, do you anticipate that the filter particles might erode into the downstream shell? If so, what would you do to solve this problem?
Filtration design 3 . An earth dam is being

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