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J Specimen 1
3
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a5
&) wetting
8) Specimen 2
&
Wetting
Specimen 3
Specimen 4
Vertical Stress
Wetting
Specimen 4
FIG. 2 Deformation Versus Vertical Stress, Tost Method A
3. Term
ology
3.1 Definitions —Eor definitions of common technical terms
in this standard, cefer to Terminology D633.
3.2 Definitions of Terms Specific to This Spandard
32.1 collapse or hydrocompression (L)—welting-induced
decrease in height of a soil element or test specimen,
3.22 collapse or hydrocompression strain—%
induced change in height divided by the hei
rior to wetting
welting-
t immediately
4.23 compression (L}—decrease in height of a soil element
or est specimen due to wetting (synonymous with bydrocom:
pression or collapse) or due to increase in total stress
3.24 free swell, % percent swell followi
water atthe seating pressure of | KPa (20 Ibf/h")
125 intact specimen—a test specimen obtained from
fetural deposit or from an existing compacted fill or embank-
meat using undisturbed sampling equipment
sorption of
126 percent heave or settlement, %—change in vertical
height divided by the height of a column of soil immediately
before wetting
327 primary swell or collapse (L)—amount of swell of
collapse characterized as being completed atthe intersection of
1
328 reconstituted specimen—a test specimen compacted
into & mold
the two tangents fo the curve shown in Eig
329 secondery swell or collapse (L}—long-term swell or
Collapse characterized as the linear portion ofthe plot shown ia
Fig. | following completion of primary swell or collapse
3210 5
lun of soil
rilement (L}—doerease in vertical height of a cot-
3.2.11 swell (£)—inerease in thickness of a soil element oF
Soil specimen following absorption of water.
3.2.12. swell pressure (FL
(o prevent swelling
)the minimum stress requifed
4. Summa
ry of Test Methods
4.1 Tn these test methods a soil specimen is restrained
laterally in a rigid mold and loaded vertically (axially) in
increments up to a load that depends on the purpose of the test,
Subsequent to reaching equilibrium under the applied load, the
specimen is inundated with (est water and the one-dimensional
wetting-induced swell or collapse strain is measured, Test
Method A is specilied for specimens that are reconstituted
Using the fill material excluding the oversize fraction. Test
Method Bis for intact samples of a natural soil or an existing
fil, In both cases, the measured stesins are wetting-induced,
not load-induved. Test Method C is used for measuring
load-induced compression subsequent to welting-induced
swell or collapse
5. Significance and Use
S.1 The wetting-induced swell/collapse strains measured
from Test Methods A and B can be used to develop estimates
of heave or settlement of a confined soil profile (L and 2)."
They can also be used to estimate the magnitudes of the swell
pressure and the free swell strain, The load-induced strains
after wetting from ‘Test Method C can be used to estimate
stress-induced settlement following, welting-induced heave or
settlement, Selection of test method, loading, ancl inundation
sequences should, as closely as possible, simulate field condi-
lions because relatively sinall variations in density and water
content, or sequence of loading and wetting can significantly
alter the test results (3 and 4),