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Find the new void ratio and moist unit weight of soil.
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The top 500 m 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 unit weight of the soil.
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The dry density of a sand with a porosity of 0.387 is 1600 kg/ m3, determine the void ratio, specific gravity, and saturated unit weight of soil in KN/ m3.
3. A sand has a natural water content of 5% and bulk unit weight of 18.0 kN/m3. The void ratios corresponding to the densest and loosest state of this soil are 0.51 and 0.87. Find the relative density and degree of saturation.
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