The present application belongs to the technical field of
geotechnical engineering test, and relates to a
system and method for rapidly determining the
permeability coefficient of low-permeability soil in situ, which comprises an inner sleeve, an outer sleeve, a pressurizing device and a
pore water pressure sensor. The inner and outer sleeves are simultaneously driven into the soil to a specified depth, and then the outer sleeve is further pressed to form a sealed test cavity; water is injected into the inner sleeve and the top is closed, and a stable air pressure is applied through the pressurizing hole to accelerate the
permeation; the
pore water pressure sensor pre-embedded at the bottom of the outer sleeve is used to monitor the transient change data of the
pore water pressure at the soil
permeation interface in real time and in situ, instead of the traditional external
water level change. Based on the monitored
pressure decay data, the
soil parameters can be calculated. Compared with the prior art, the present application discards the unreliable
water level observation link, shortens the test time from several days to several hours, fundamentally avoids the errors introduced by the capillary effect and
hysteresis effect, and realizes the rapid and high-precision test of low-permeability soil in situ.