Geotechnical Engineering

DHARM 80 GEOTECHNICAL ENGINEERING the original soil was 50, what is the percentage of particles finer computed above in the enti ...

DHARM INDEX PROPERTIES AND CLASSIFICATION TESTS 81 ∴ The weight of solid mixed in the suspension = 0.445 N. By Eqs. 3.21 and 3.2 ...

DHARM 82 GEOTECHNICAL ENGINEERING ∴ Liquid limit, wL = Ip + wp = 30 + 25 = 55%. By Eq. 3.40, Liquidity index, IL = ()ww I p p − ...

DHARM INDEX PROPERTIES AND CLASSIFICATION TESTS 83 Final dry volume = 24.1 cm^3 Final dry weight = 0.435 N Determine the shrinka ...

DHARM 84 GEOTECHNICAL ENGINEERING Difference in the volume of water at LL and SL = (30 – 16.6) cm^3 = 13.4 cm^3 Corresponding di ...

DHARM INDEX PROPERTIES AND CLASSIFICATION TESTS 85 ∴ ws = γw 170 wG 1 100 1 170 1 271 100 ... − F HG I KJ =−F HG I KJ = 21.9% ∴ ...

DHARM 86 GEOTECHNICAL ENGINEERING ∴ 17.33 = 272 10 1 . () × +e ∴ e ≈ 0.57 ∴ Void-ratio = 0.57 Shrinkage limit, ws = e/G = 0.57/2 ...

DHARM INDEX PROPERTIES AND CLASSIFICATION TESTS 87 Shrinkage ratio = () () VV V Ld d − 100/(wL – ws) = 136.VV V dd d F − HG I KJ ...

DHARM 88 GEOTECHNICAL ENGINEERING 40 kN/m^2. Classify the soil with regard to its sensitivity and indicate the possible structur ...

DHARM INDEX PROPERTIES AND CLASSIFICATION TESTS 89 IS: 2720 (Part-IV)—1985: Methods of Test for Soils—Part IV Grain size Analys ...

DHARM 90 GEOTECHNICAL ENGINEERING 3.10 An oven-dried soil weighing 1.89 N is placed in a pyknometer which is then filled with wa ...

DHARM INDEX PROPERTIES AND CLASSIFICATION TESTS 91 3.20 In a hydrometer analysis, 0.5 N of soil was mixed in water to form one l ...

4.1 Introduction It has already been stated that certain terms such as ‘Gravel’, ‘Sand’, ‘Silt’ and ‘Clay’ are used to designate ...

DHARM IDENTIFICATION AND CLASSIFICATION OF SOILS 93 Sand from Silt Fine sand cannot be easily distinguished from silt by simple ...

DHARM 94 GEOTECHNICAL ENGINEERING The identification procedures given above may have bearing on preliminary classifica- tion of ...

DHARM IDENTIFICATION AND CLASSIFICATION OF SOILS 95 (i) It should be acceptable to all engineers. These are rather very ambitiou ...

DHARM 96 GEOTECHNICAL ENGINEERING fibrous, nature, very low specific gravity (0.5 to 0.8), and very high compressibility and ran ...

DHARM IDENTIFICATION AND CLASSIFICATION OF SOILS 97 Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) System of Classification of U.S ...

DHARM 98 GEOTECHNICAL ENGINEERING 100 90 80 70 60 50 Clay % 40 30 Silty clay Loam 20 10 0 100908070 SiltSilt SiltySilty clayclay ...

DHARM IDENTIFICATION AND CLASSIFICATION OF SOILS 99 Fine-grained soils are subdivided into those with low plasticity (L), with l ...