Infiltration Characteristics of Tropical Soils at University Technology PETRONAS Campus

This study is chosen by the author is to examine the relationship between rainfall
amount and settlement in University Technology Petronas (UTP), Tronoh, Perak. The
settlement had occurred near student residential college, Blok K which caused a small
hole on the road. The incident is said that caused by the heavy rainfall. This study is
done to propose an investigation to find out the effect of rainfall to the ground settlement
in UTP. This is study also to suggest the method to proceed with the investigation. From
the result of this study at the end of this project, hopefully it will be useful to others in
solving settlement problem and come out with other solution in order to avoid ground
settlement in future. The result shows that the significant variation of soil infiltration
exists in the area of studied. Larger range and the lower sill indicates that the soil
infiltration are spatially dependent over long distance (large range) and the variability is
low (indicates by low sill). Land disturbance and land topographic conditions contribute
to the variability of soil infiltration.