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  1. Deacy

    Women Engineers....

    Have we come to a point where the personell dept has to have a second checklist hidden under the desk? The top one measures competence, education and skils to do the job; the second has questions on "Is theis potential employee going to be distractingly attractive? Can we fill the race / gender...
  2. Deacy

    No. of Blows per sq. ft

    If sach4u1 is getting the number of blows from a drilling log they could be blows recorded from a number of different methods (bs1377 part 9 gives details of CPT, SPT and DP tests). There are significant limitations on the intrepretation as outlined in Clayton, CRI, The standard penetration...
  3. Deacy

    Sulphate content

    Has anyone any thoughts on how to measure the water soluble sulphate content of peat soils? BS1377 is no good as drying at 80oC is necessary and it is impossible to re-wet.
  4. Deacy

    How can I find salinity of some place?

    Have you tried measuring the chloride content? There's a very simple test with silver nitrate in BS1377.
  5. Deacy

    acidity testing of soil

    Can anyone give me the general gist of DIN 4030-2 Assessment of water, soil and gasses for their agressivness to concrete? Also does any lab in Ireland or Britain test to this standard? Thanks
  6. Deacy

    Redox Potential / Resistivity Testing

    Does anyone know of a lab in Ireland or UK that will test soil to BS1377 for redox potential and resistivity?
  7. Deacy

    Cobbles in PSD graph

    I need some advice on reporting cobbles as part of a particle size distribution analysis. I test by BS1377 with help from BS5930. This standard tells me to describe mixed coarse soil as if it had no cobbles and boulders first and then to add them in to the description as occasional, some or...

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