1) Typical structures of a loess soil. 2) The variation of water content in the active zone. 3) Shrinkage and swell of an expansive clay.
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- A granular soil with a Gs = 2.70, e 0.520 is compacted to a moist unit weight of 112.2 psf at a moisture content of 11%. What is the relative density of the compacted sand? 0.880 and e max min2. A saturated soil sample has a water content of 34% and void ratio of 0.92. Determine the effective and moist unit weight. Another soil has an effec-tive unit weight of 10.29 kN/m3 and has a void ratio of 0.62, what is this soil’s bulk density and degree of saturation at a water content of 14%.The settlement of a clay soil will be affected by (choose all that apply): -Time -Effective Stress at different depths -Elastic compression -Void ratio decrease
- EN only. Choose 1- The particles are deposited to form sedimentary soil due to: a. velocity reduction b. solubility decrease c. electrolyte increase d. all the above none of the above 2- The increase in rate of weathering forms a tyne of soil named:The representative liquid limit and plastic limit values of a saturated consolidate clay deposit are 60% and 30%, respectively. The saturated unit weight of the soil is 19 kN/m³. The water table is at 8m below ground level. At a depth of 10m from the ground surface, what is the undrained shear strength of the soil.Following table presents information for a fine-grained soil: Current effective stress (kPa) Current void ratio of the soil Overconsolidation Ratio (OCR) Compression index (Cc) Re-compression index (Cr) 30 0.96 7.06 0.18 0.06 Determine the void ratio of the soil at the preconsolidation pressure.
- The top 500 mm of a site consists of a clayey sand with void ratio of 0.90 and water content of 20.0%. The specific gravity of the soil grains is 2.68. When the ground is compacted at the same water content, there is 45 mm reduction in the thickness of this layer. Determine the new void ratio and the moist unit weight of the soil.In saturated fine-grained soils, how does the high pore water pressures develop?Problem 1: A granular soil with a Gs = 2.70, e max = 0.880 and e, psf at a moisture content of 11%. What is the relative density of the compacted sand? = 0.520 is compacted to a moist unit weight of 112.2
- A clay layer 25 feet thick is overlain with 50 feet thick of sand with specific gravity of 2.71. The water table is 20 feet below the sand surface. The saturated unit weight of clay is 141.0 pcf. The sand below the water table has a unit weight of 128.0 pcf. The sand above the water table has an average moisture content of 20.0%. After drying the sand was. found to have a dry unit of 92.0 pcf. Determine the effective stress at the mid-height of Lhe clay layer.Coefficient of compressibility is O(A) Constant for any type of soil O(B) Different for different types of soils and also different for a soil under different states of consolidation OCC) Different for different types of soils but same for a soil under different states of consolidation O(D) Independent of type of soil but depends on the stress history of soilCivil Engineering Which of the following statements is true for lightly over-consolidated clays in a consolidated drained (CD) triaxial test? Select one: a. Yield surface continuously expands b. Yield surface expands and then remains constant at the critical state c. Yield surface first expands and then shrinks d. Yield surface first expands, then shrinks and finally remains constant at the critical state