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Soil Compaction Tests
Proctor tests are widely used to define compacting criteria in soil constructions such as roads, embankments and earth dams. For the standard and modified Proctor tests, the published correlations link the optimal dry unit weight or dry density and water content to the liquid limit of the soil. For mixtures of sands, kaolinite and montmorillonite, Acar and Nyeretse related the capillary pressure (in kPa) at the optimum of the modified Proctor tests (OPM) to the plasticity index. This chapter expresses that the California bearing ratio (CBR) and the soil modulus are related. The CBR decreases beyond and a mean value of five is commonly used for compacted soils. If the compaction and the bearing capacity of an embankment are tested with a PANDA light dynamic penetrometer, the CBR is correlated with the dynamic tip resistance.
Soil Compaction Tests
Proctor tests are widely used to define compacting criteria in soil constructions such as roads, embankments and earth dams. For the standard and modified Proctor tests, the published correlations link the optimal dry unit weight or dry density and water content to the liquid limit of the soil. For mixtures of sands, kaolinite and montmorillonite, Acar and Nyeretse related the capillary pressure (in kPa) at the optimum of the modified Proctor tests (OPM) to the plasticity index. This chapter expresses that the California bearing ratio (CBR) and the soil modulus are related. The CBR decreases beyond and a mean value of five is commonly used for compacted soils. If the compaction and the bearing capacity of an embankment are tested with a PANDA light dynamic penetrometer, the CBR is correlated with the dynamic tip resistance.
Soil Compaction Tests
Verbrugge, Jean‐Claude (author) / Schroeder, Christian (author)
2018-05-30
3 pages
Article/Chapter (Book)
Electronic Resource
English
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