Soil Compaction
Soil Compaction
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What is the process to measure soil compaction?
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RE: Soil Compaction
Do you have a standard to meet?
Are you testing compacted fill or do you want to know the in-place density of existing soil?
Is this for roadway or building work?
Will the testing be done at the surface or subsurface?
RE: Soil Compaction
2. measure unit weight of material compacted in the field
3. compare the two unit weights to get the percent of maximum
RE: Soil Compaction
1) Obtain a sample of the soil being compacted.
2) Perform a proctor ASTM D1556 on the soil being compacted in your local materials testing laboratory.
3) Use the proctor value and any of a number of methods of testing the compacted soil. The most common of these methods includes a nuclear density gauge, and the sand cone method.
That's the long and short of it.
RE: Soil Compaction
Does you firm work with geotechs when designing your projects? I'm sure the geotech firm would be willing to give you or your office a little review session on soils basics. Usually geotechs provide recommendations to the structural engineers for use in designing the proposed foundations and performing required earthwork operations. It would be to everyone's benefit if each party better understood the other.
RE: Soil Compaction
RE: Soil Compaction