Soil Sample

Atterberg Limits Soil Grain Size Specific Gravity

Analysis Analysis Analysis

Liquid Plastic Shrinkage

Limit Limit Limit

Plastic Liquidity
Index Index

Dry Sieve Wet Sieve

Soil
Classification

Conclusion
Liquid Limit Analysis Steps
Take the soil sample that passes through sieve
#40

Mix the soil sample with water with a spatula

Put the soil mixture into Casa Grande bowl and

adjust mixture surface to be aligned with the
edge of the bowl

Divided the soil mixture equally by a firm stroke

of the grooving tool along the diameter through
the centerline of the bowl

Lift and drop the bowl by turning the crank until

the two halves of the sample flow together and
come in contact at the bottom of the groove
along a distance of ½ in. (12.7 mm)

Acquire the data

for number of NO
drops below and
over 25 times

YES

Measure the Moisture Content

Prepare 5 cups and measure the weight of each

cups

Put half of the sample that already divided by

grooving tool to the cup and measure the weight

Put to the cup to the oven wait until it dried and

measure the weight again
Plastic Limit Analysis Steps
Lay down the soil sample on the glass plate and
mix the soil sample with water

Roll over the soil mixture to ellipsoidal shaped

with 3 mm diameter

Keep rolling the soil mixture until a crack

appeared within 3 mm diameter

Prepare a container and measure the container

weight

Put the ellipsoidally shaped soil mixture into a

container and measure the weight of the
container with the soil mixture inside

Place the container into an oven

Measure the weight of the container with the

soil mixture inside at dry condition
Shrinkage Limit Analysis Steps
Prepare another soil sample and mix soil
sample with water to a liquid state

Prepare a container and measure the container

weight

Measure the volume of the container using a

mercury

Put the sample mixture into the container until

the container is full and the sample surface align
with the edge of the container and measure the
weight of the full container

Lay the container into an oven for some time

until dry

Take the container and measure the weight again

with the soil mixture in dry condition

Take the soil mixture out of the container and fill

the container with mercury

Put the sample back to the container and evenly

distributed the mercury in the container with a
piece of glass

Weight the mercury that had been poured

out of the container
 Specific Gravity Analysis Steps
Prepare a flask and measure the flask's Prepare 50 gram of soil sample and a
weight flask

Pour water into the flask until the surface of the Put in the soil sample into the flask
water reached a line on the neck the flask that
state 500 mL
Keep the water surface at the line on the neck
Boil the flask until the water temperature the flask that state 500 mL
o
reaches about 50 C
Boil the flask until the temperature inside
o
o reaches about 50 C
Measure the weight of the flask at 45 C until
o o
20 C with 5 C range interval
Prepare a container and measure the container's
weight
Plot the weight of the flask for each
temperature in the weight versus
temperature graph At 30oC pour the water and the soil sample into
the container

Measure the weight of the container with water

and the soil sample

Put the container into an oven until the soil

sample reaches a dry condition

Measure the weight of the container with

the soil sample
 Soil Grain Size Analysis Steps
Prepare a container, sieve #200 and 1000 Prepare a container, sieve #3/4, #4,
gram of soil sample #10,#40, #200

Measure the weight of the container Measure the weight of each sieve and the
container
Put the container under the sieve #200
Stack the sieve on top of each other from #3/4 to
#200 and container at the bottom of the stack
Pour the soil sample into sieve #200 and add
water to help the soil passes through the sieve
#200 Grab the soil
sample that does
not pass through
The soil sample that passes through sieve #200 sieve #200 and
will be contained by the container put the sample on
top the sieve#3/4
Lay down the container into an oven and wait
until dry

Weight the soil sample in the container at dry Shake the stack of the sieve for some time until
condition each sieve filter the soil sample

Measure the weight of each sieve with the

leftover soil sample