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The document appears to be notes from a tutorial on soil compaction conducted by the Department of Civil Engineering at Universiti Malaysia Sarawak, as it includes 2 sample problems and questions about constructing compaction curves from experimental modified Proctor test data to determine important compaction specifications.
This 3-sentence summary provides the key details about the document:
The document appears to be notes from a tutorial on soil compaction conducted by the Department of Civil Engineering at Universiti Malaysia Sarawak, as it includes 2 sample problems and questions about constructing compaction curves from experimental modified Proctor test data to determine important compaction specifications.
This 3-sentence summary provides the key details about the document:
The document appears to be notes from a tutorial on soil compaction conducted by the Department of Civil Engineering at Universiti Malaysia Sarawak, as it includes 2 sample problems and questions about constructing compaction curves from experimental modified Proctor test data to determine important compaction specifications.
Q1 1.7 kg of moist soil is compacted into compaction mould. The soil has 7% water content.
Determine dry unit weight of the soil in the mould.
Compaction A modified proctor test is performed in the laboratory for an highway construction project. Six samples with different water content are compacted. The following table presents the Q2 experimental data. Bulk weight 18.6 19.5 20.13 19.8 19.5 19.3 (N) Water 7.82 8.93 10.2 12.07 13.01 13.6 content (%) Gs = 2.67 Questions: a) Construct compaction curve (dry unit weight, kN/m3 versus water content, %) b) Construct zero air void line (S=100%, ZAVL) c) Construct 20% air void line (S=80%) d) Determine the optimum water content (owc) and maximum dry unit weight (gd,max) e) Calculate degree of saturation at maximum dry unit weight (gd,max) f) Calculate the 95% dry unit weight needs to be achieved in the field g) Determine water contents at dry of optimum and wet of optimum