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Typical Soil Properties
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Typical Soil Properties

Typical Soil Properties

(OP)
Are there any good charts for typical unit weights of various soil types?

RE: Typical Soil Properties

Between about 100 to 130 pcf - wet or dry??

RE: Typical Soil Properties

(OP)
I am looking to design standard foundations for specialty equipment. I am looking to use typical soil properties for gravel,sand and clay. I know no foundation should be standard and that it needs to be designed based off of the soil sample, but I need to design this way to get the design into the sales option. I plan on adjusting accordingly after we have a site targeted and sampled.

RE: Typical Soil Properties

cl220... the publication listed by cvg has a lot of AASHTO rigid pavement info in it and may be of use. I just skimmed through it and if you go to the beginning, you can download the entire *.pdf document.

Dik

RE: Typical Soil Properties

(OP)
I took a look at the link, the tables listed in Chp 5 look pretty useful.
Thanks for the help.

RE: Typical Soil Properties

Hey CVG, That FHWA publication is going on our intranet. Thanks for the link.

f-d

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