Cohesive soil is known as fine soil while cohesionless soil is known as course soil. These materials are important to be identified for its parameters and classified accordingly in geotechnical engineering design. Hence, explain briefly about the condition of permeability and porosity in both cohesive and cohesionless soils. Based on the laboratory testing on a sandy soil, the following values are obtained: Volume = 0.78 m3 Moist mass = 1755 kg Dry mass = 1432 kg Specific gravity of soil solids = 2.70 Determine the following parameters: i) Moisture content ii) Dry density iii) Void ratio iv) Porosity Then, by assuming the same parameters of sandy soil, determine the value for emin and relative density, Dr when the soil is having 10% of fine materials and emax = 0.79.
Cohesive soil is known as fine soil while cohesionless soil is known as course soil. These
materials are important to be identified for its parameters and classified accordingly in
and porosity in both cohesive and cohesionless soils.
Based on the laboratory testing on a sandy soil, the following values are obtained:
Volume = 0.78 m3
Moist mass = 1755 kg
Dry mass = 1432 kg
Specific gravity of soil solids = 2.70
Determine the following parameters:
i) Moisture content
ii) Dry density
iii) Void ratio
iv) Porosity
Then, by assuming the same parameters of sandy soil, determine the value for emin and relative
density, Dr when the soil is having 10% of fine materials and emax = 0.79.
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