BASED ON LABORATORY TESTS, THE FOLLOWING INDEX PROPERTIES HAVE BEEN DETERMINED FOR THE SAND DEPOSIT: USE SEPARATE PAPER CLASSIFY THE SAND USING THE UNIFIED SOIL CLASSIFICATION SYSTEM: (USCS). SHOW ALL WORK AND CALCULATIONS DESCRIBE THE SAND ACCORDING TO THE USCS SYSTEM: CLASSIFY THE SAND BASED ON AASHTO CLASSIFICATION SYSTEM: SHOW ALL WORK AND CALCULATIONS NO. 10 SIEVE: 94% NO. 40 SIEVE: 67% ATTERBERG LIMIT TESTS ON CLAY SOILS ARE ALWAYS PERFORMED WET TO DRY? (SELECT ONE) TRUE FALSE WHAT IS ANOTHER NAME FOR A WIND BLOWN SILT: WHAT LABORATORY TEST METHOD IS USED TO DETERMINE WHETHER OR NOT A CLAY SOIL IS CLASSIFIED AS ORGANIC? SELECT ALL CORRECT ANSWERS BURN TEST ACID TEST LIQUID LIMIT TEST SMELL TEST
Solution
1) -coarse grain( given that most of the material has a bigger size the #200
- since is 5.7%, is bewteen 5-12%, we need to use dual symbols.
SW-SM
sand well grained with claysof no plasticity
AASHTO
-Granular(given that 35% or less in this case 5.7% passed through sieve #200)
- GIVEN AASHTO
40 67% 51% min
20 5.7% 10% max
thereforeis A-3
general as a subgrade no plasticity
6D. true
6E.Loess
6F.Liquis limit test
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BASED ON LABORATORY TESTS- THE FOLLOWING INDEX PROPERTIES HAVE BEEN DE.docx
1. BASED ON LABORATORY TESTS, THE FOLLOWING INDEX PROPERTIES HAVE
BEEN DETERMINED FOR THE SAND DEPOSIT: USE SEPARATE PAPER CLASSIFY
THE SAND USING THE UNIFIED SOIL CLASSIFICATION SYSTEM: (USCS). SHOW
ALL WORK AND CALCULATIONS DESCRIBE THE SAND ACCORDING TO THE USCS
SYSTEM: CLASSIFY THE SAND BASED ON AASHTO CLASSIFICATION SYSTEM:
SHOW ALL WORK AND CALCULATIONS NO. 10 SIEVE: 94% NO. 40 SIEVE: 67%
ATTERBERG LIMIT TESTS ON CLAY SOILS ARE ALWAYS PERFORMED WET TO
DRY? (SELECT ONE) TRUE FALSE WHAT IS ANOTHER NAME FOR A WIND BLOWN
SILT: WHAT LABORATORY TEST METHOD IS USED TO DETERMINE WHETHER OR
NOT A CLAY SOIL IS CLASSIFIED AS ORGANIC? SELECT ALL CORRECT ANSWERS
BURN TEST ACID TEST LIQUID LIMIT TEST SMELL TEST
Solution
1) -coarse grain( given that most of the material has a bigger size the #200
- since is 5.7%, is bewteen 5-12%, we need to use dual symbols.
SW-SM
sand well grained with claysof no plasticity
AASHTO
-Granular(given that 35% or less in this case 5.7% passed through sieve #200)
- GIVEN AASHTO
40 67% 51% min
20 5.7% 10% max
thereforeis A-3
general as a subgrade no plasticity
6D. true
6E.Loess
6F.Liquis limit test
