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Types of Soil Tests for Building Construction What are Bearing Capacity
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Various tests on soil are conducted to decide the quality of soil for building
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�eld. Here we will discuss about the importance of various soil tests for Concrete
Pycnometer method
Radiation method
Alcohol method
Of all the above oven drying method is most common and accurate method.
In this method the soil sample is taken and weighed and put it in oven and
dried at 110 o + 5oC. After 24 hours soil is taken out and weighed. The
di�erence between the two weights is noted as weight of water or moisture
content in the soil.
Speci�c gravity of soil is the ratio of the unit weight of soil solids to that of
the water. It is determined by many methods and they are.
Pycnometer method
Density bottle method and Pycnometer method are simple and common
methods. In Pycnometer method, Pycnometer is weighed in 4 di�erent cases
that is empty weight (M1), empty + dry soil (M2), empty + water + dry soil
(M3) and Pycnometer �lled with water (M4) at room temperature. From
these 4 masses speci�c gravity is determined by below formula.
In this method also, a hole is created in the ground by excavating soil whose
dry density is to be �nd. The hole is �lled with uniform sand of known dry
density. So by dividing the mass of sand poured into the hole with dry
density of sand gives the volume of hole. So we can calculate the soil dry
density from above formula.
In this test, Casagrande’s liquid limit device is used which consist a cup with
moving up and down mechanism. The cup is �lled with soil sample and
groove is created in the middle of cup with proper tool. When the cup is
moved up and down with the help of handle the groove becomes closed at
some point.
Note down the number of blows required to close the groove. After that
water content of soil is determined. Repeat this procedure 3 times and draw
a graph between log N and water content of soil. Water content
corresponding to N=25 is the liquid limit of soil.
Take the soil sample and add some water to make it plastic enough to shape
into small ball. Leave it for some time and after that put that ball in the glass
plate and rolled it into threads of 3mm diameter.
If the threads do not break when we roll it to below 3mm diameter, then
water content is more than the plastic limit. In that case reduce water
content and repeat the same procedure until crumbling occurs at 3mm
diameter. Finally �nd out the water content of resultant soil which value is
nothing but plastic limit.
In case of shrinkage limit, the water content in the soil is just su�cient to �ll
the voids of soil. That is degree of saturation is of 100%. So, there is no
change in volume of soil if we reduce the shrinkage limit. It is determined
by the below formula for the given soil sample.
Pw = density of water.
In Proctor’s Compaction Test, given soil sample sieved through 20mm and
4.75 mm sieves. Percentage passing 4.75mm and percentage retained on
4.75mm are mixed with certain proportions.
Add water to it and leave it in air tight container for 20hrs. Mix the soil and
divide it into 6 – 8 parts. Position the mold and pour one part of soil into the
mold as 3layers with 25 blows of ramming for each layer.
Remove the base plate and Weight the soil along with mold. Remove the soil
from mold and take the small portion of soil sample at di�erent layers and
conduct water content test. from the values �nd out the dry density of soil
and water content and draw a graph between them and note down the
maximum dry density and optimum water content of the compacted soil
sample at highest point on the curve.
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