A new approach to the evaluation of water-pressure test results obtained in bedrock by the US Bureau of Reclamation Method

As is known, the permeability coefficient of saturated and unsaturated rock masses can be found using the Bureau of Reclamation Method, which uses single and double packer water-pressure test results obtained from drillholes. The Bureau of Reclamation Method is, however, a time-consuming processes. s study, a new graphical method that does not necessitate the procedures mentioned above is proposed for the determination of the coefficient of permeability. This graphical method has been prepared with the idea that the amount of water injected into the testing section increases as the permeability of the rock mass increases. If the amount of average water loss in a 2-m test section is known, the average permeability coefficient of this section can be found using the proposed graphical method.