Typical Soil Properties 3

[cl220]

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

 

[MiketheEngineer]

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

 

[cvg]

http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/engineering/geotech/pubs/05037/05a.cfm

 

[cl220]

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.

 

[dik]

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

 

[cl220]

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

 

[fattdad]

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

f-d

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