GROUP NO.: CRS/YR/SEC: __esci NAME: __ceRNARDO, KATHRYNE DATE PERFORMED: GROUP LEADER: peanscpo KATHRYNE. DATE SUBMITTED: ACTIVITY NO. 04 Liquid Limit Determination of Soil Sample REFERENCE Ey oy = 16-9021 2081 ASTM D854 - Standard Test Methods for Liquid Limit, Plastic Limit, and Plasticity Index of Soils OBJECTIVE To determine the liquid limit (LL) of soil sample using the Casagrande apparatus by multipoint method and by one-point method. DATA SHEET General Information Sample No. TUPM ~ 1@- 0817 Boring No. BSCE - 86 Project No. ° Location Tup MANILA Depth 3M BELOW NaTuRAL gRADE | Date 04 - 8 - 2021 Description of Sample FINE , BROWN DRY SOiL. Measurements Trial No. A 2 3 4 5 Container No. ai [#4 |e 0 [#2 |e 4 Mass of container, mi (g) ge, 19.534 | 16.146 20.073 | 16.93 Mass of wet soil + container, m2(g) | seo | 95.59 | 4.020 | oy.o6\ | 37.160 Mass of dry soil + container, m3 (g) saa | 26.088 | 26.752 | 26.505 | 29.103 ‘Mass of moisture, (m2 - m3) (g) 5.90 | ese | race | 5.5% | 7. 957 Mass of soil solid, (m3 - m1) (g) 5 94s) 10-606 1-32 10.5 Moisture Content (%) aag7 | _o9.469 [06.527 | 35001 | 75.761 Number of blows, N 50 2 29 19 1e imit by one-point method, LL(%) | 70.14 70.103 | 69. 149 | 10-675 | 71.797 ‘Average Liquid limit by one-point method, LL(%) 70.497‘ Liquid limit by Multipoint method, LL(%) 10.100 -/. Page 10f 4Flow Curve g e € 2 5 6 g 2 3 = 10 20 15 0 40 «50 60 Number of Blows, N SAMPLE CALCULATION (M2 -Ms ) (M3 -¥1), AVE, LIQUID LIMIT ( ONE POINT METHOD) to = 38.180 — 32.210 Ugg = Wl + 10.103 + 69.709 + 70.616 $71,797 aca = 22.964 5 Qs F006 x 109 345 i jo = 4.U9T yet! frei te Lh = onuar[ 27°" LL = 70-140 Page 2of 4ILLUSTRATION USE #40 Sieve To SIEVE SOIL SAMPLE SPREAD TI CUT ® STRAIGHT GROWING TOOL CALIBRATE THE HEIGHT AT BCACTLY cM - F@) AOD DISTILLED WATER TO MAKE PEANUT BUTTER CONSISTENCY ‘= @ aie Ye sen CRANK THE APPARATUS AT RATE OF 2pRORS [SEC UNTIL THE GRouP CAUSED ove HALF INCH Page 3 0f4DISCUSSION/OBSERVATION/ANALYSIS UigUID LIMIT (LL) 18 THE WATER CONTENT AT WHICH A son CHANGES FROM PLASTIC STATE TO A IGUID STATE. IT 18 DETERMINED IN THE LABORATORY WITH THE HELP OF CASAGRANDE APPARATUS. THIS TEST IS CoNDUCTED BY COUNTING THE NUMBER OF DROPS TO CLOSE THE GROOVE ANO DE TERMNE 116 MOISTURE CONTENT. THE MOISTURE CONTENT CORRESPONDING TO #5 DROPS 16 CoNsiDERED To BE LL oF so TT WS pIFFICULT TO ADJUST: THE MOISTURE CONTENT IN THE SOIL To MEET THE 25 BLOWS so” 5 TEST OF THE SAME SCIL ARE CoNOUCTED AT VARYING MOISTURE CONTENTS WITH NUMBER OF BLOWS ,N, REQUIRED TO ACHYEVED THE LIQUID LIMIT FROM THE CALCULATED DATA, USING ONE-POINT METHOD , THE AVERAGE LigUiD LIMIT 1S APPROX. 70. ugT 1 BY PLOTTING ON JEMILOGARITHMIG GRAPH |THE LL BY MULTIPOINT METHOD is 10-7001 THE LL VALUE GET 1S SLIGHTLY DIFFERENT , THIS MIGHT BE DUE TO PLOTTING » SINCE IT 1S PLOTTED MANUALLY. WHILE THE OTHER MIGHT BE FROM: LABORATORY ERROR. CONCLUSION THE LIQUID LIMIT DF THE Soil SAMPLE USING CASAGRANDE APPARATUS BY ONE-POINT METHOD ts 70-47‘, AND BY muULT\PoINT METHOD 16 70.7007, Page 4 of 4