Soil Testing Manual

Procedures, Classification Data, and Sampling Practices

By: Robert W. Day

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Paperback | 18 December 2000

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The essential tool for geotechnical and soil engineering fieldwork

Written by AIA award-winning civil engineer Robert Day, Soil Testing Manual gives engineers, geologists, contractors, on-site construction managers -- anyone who needs answers on the characteristics of soil -- a convenient, complete source of today's most authoritative solutions. This reader-friendly guide simplifies each step of every process, from selecting appropriate methods to analyzing your results. Filled with handy tables, charts, diagrams, and formulas that eliminate time-wasting and frustrating searches and calculations, this manual gives you better results in less time as you:
Get expert approaches to testing altered and disturbed soils
Set up a mobile field lab with complete directions
Use rip-out sheets for on-site reference and checks
Get quick access to data on grading, instrumentation, technical methods, procedure guidelines, and preferred practices
Draw authoritative conclusions on fill compaction
Measure cohesiveness, shear strength, settlement, permeability, and other critical parameters
Construct a subsoil profile

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"Robert O. Parmley, "I have reviewed the preliminary text material and found the writing style to be clear, well organized, well phrased and technically sound. The author has prepared good tables, charts, and guidelines for users.

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Preface	p. xiii
Acknowledgements	p. xv
Introduction	p. 1
Laboratory Testing Program	p. 1
Common Laboratory Tests of Soil	p. 4
Laboratory Equipment	p. 4
Minimum requirements	p. 4
Calibration	p. 5
Manuals	p. 6
Accreditation	p. 7
Symbols and Units	p. 7
Book Outline	p. 8
Types of Soil Samples	p. 9
Introduction	p. 9
Subsurface Exploration	p. 9
Borings, test pits, and trenches	p. 10
Soil sampling	p. 15
Three Types of Soil Samples	p. 16
X-Ray Radiography of Soil Samples	p. 19
Soil Structure	p. 22
Transporting, Preserving, and Disposal of Soil Samples	p. 22
Transportation of soil samples	p. 22
Preserving soil samples	p. 23
Disposal of soil samples	p. 24
Problems	p. 24
Index Tests	p. 25
Introduction	p. 26
Three Basic Parts of Soil	p. 26
Water Content	p. 27
Test procedure	p. 27
Calculations	p. 27
Common errors	p. 29
Dissolved solids	p. 29
Temperature effects	p. 29
Unit Weight	p. 30
Test procedure	p. 31
Calculations	p. 31
Common errors	p. 32
Dry unit weight	p. 32
Buoyant unit weight	p. 33
Specific Gravity	p. 33
Test procedure	p. 35
Calculations	p. 36
Common errors	p. 37
Soluble solids	p. 39
Phase Relationships	p. 40
Volume of voids	p. 40
Void ratio and porosity	p. 40
Degree of saturation	p. 41
Useful relationships	p. 41
Relative Density	p. 42
Problems	p. 43
Particle Size Distribution and Atterberg Limits	p. 47
Introduction	p. 48
Particle Size Definitions	p. 48
Sieve Analysis	p. 48
Test procedure	p. 49
Calculations	p. 51
Common errors	p. 52
Hydrometer Analysis	p. 54
Test procedure	p. 55
Calculations	p. 57
Common errors	p. 60
Particle Size Distribution	p. 61
Atterberg Limits	p. 63
Test procedure	p. 63
Calculations	p. 68
Common errors	p. 69
Plasticity index and liquidity index	p. 69
Clay mineralogy and activity	p. 69
Problems	p. 72
Soil Classification	p. 79
Introduction	p. 79
Unified Soil Classification System	p. 79
Coarse-grained and fine-grained soils	p. 80
Group symbols	p. 80
Other descriptive terminology	p. 83
Inorganic Soil Classification System Based on Plasticity	p. 84
AASHTO Soil Classification System	p. 85
USDA Textural Soil Classification System	p. 87
Other Soil Classification Systems	p. 87
Example of Different Soil Classification Systems	p. 87
Organic Soil Classification	p. 91
Unusual Soil	p. 91
Problems	p. 95
Soil Settlement Analysis	p. 105
Introduction	p. 106
Oedometer Apparatus	p. 106
Collapsible Soil	p. 110
Introduction	p. 110
Test procedure	p. 111
Calculations	p. 113
Example of test data	p. 114
Common errors	p. 117
Collapse potential	p. 117
Consolidation Test	p. 118
Introduction	p. 118
Test procedure	p. 119
Settlement calculations	p. 121
Rate of consolidation	p. 129
Secondary compression	p. 135
Common errors	p. 136
Oedometer Apparatus for Other Soils	p. 136
Problems	p. 140
Expansive Soil	p. 151
Introduction	p. 152
Expansive Soil Factors	p. 152
Expansion Potential	p. 153
Introduction	p. 153
Index properties	p. 153
Expansion Index test	p. 157
HUD swell test	p. 167
Foundation design	p. 170
Swell Tests	p. 171
Introduction	p. 171
Test procedure	p. 171
Heave calculations	p. 174
Common errors and limitations	p. 174
Swelling of desiccated clays	p. 174
Swell Index	p. 180
Expansive Rock	p. 186
Problems	p. 187
Shear Strength of Cohesionless Soil	p. 195
Introduction	p. 195
Mohr-Coulomb Failure Law	p. 196
Typical Values of Effective Friction Angle	p. 197
Direct Shear Test	p. 199
Introduction	p. 199
Test procedure	p. 201
Calculations	p. 206
Example of test data	p. 207
Common errors and limitations	p. 208
Triaxial Test	p. 210
Problems	p. 210
Shear Strength of Cohesive Soil	p. 217
Introduction	p. 218
Triaxial Test	p. 220
Equipment	p. 220
Test procedure	p. 225
Calculations	p. 235
Example of test data	p. 243
Common errors and limitations	p. 249
Undrained Shear Strength s[subscript u]	p. 250
Introduction	p. 250
Unconfined compression test	p. 251
Vane shear test	p. 257
Sensitivity	p. 260
Consistency	p. 260
Undrained shear strength versus depth	p. 261
Normalized undrained shear strength s[subscript u]/[sigma superscript l subscript v]	p. 262
Undrained Shear Strength (c and [phis])	p. 263
Introduction	p. 263
Unconsolidated undrained triaxial compression test	p. 263
Consolidated undrained triaxial compression test	p. 266
Effective Shear Strength	p. 267
Introduction	p. 267
Direct shear test	p. 268
Consolidated drained triaxial compression test	p. 268
Consolidated undrained triaxial compression test with pore water pressure measurements	p. 269
Factors Affecting Shear Strength	p. 272
Total Stress and Effective Stress Analyses	p. 275
Drained Residual Shear Strength	p. 276
Introduction	p. 276
Direct shear apparatus	p. 278
Torsional ring shear test	p. 279
Examples of test data	p. 282
Problems	p. 283
Laboratory Compaction Tests	p. 293
Introduction	p. 293
Modified Proctor Compaction Test	p. 295
Test procedure	p. 296
Calculations	p. 301
Example of test data	p. 303
Common errors and limitations	p. 307
Standard Proctor Compaction Test	p. 309
One-Point Proctor Test	p. 309
Oversize Particles	p. 310
Problems	p. 312
Field Density Tests	p. 317
Introduction	p. 318
Grading	p. 318
Sand Cone Test	p. 323
Calibration	p. 324
Test procedure	p. 330
Calculations	p. 338
Common errors and limitations	p. 339
Other Destructive Field Density Tests	p. 340
Balloon test	p. 340
Drive cylinder	p. 340
Test pit method	p. 346
Nondestructive Field Density Test	p. 347
Types of Fill	p. 349
Select import	p. 349
Uniform borrow	p. 350
Mixed borrow	p. 350
Borrow with oversize particles	p. 352
Frequency of Field Density Testing	p. 357
Problems	p. 359
Permeability Tests	p. 365
Introduction	p. 365
Factors affecting the coefficient of permeability	p. 367
Darcy's law	p. 369
Laboratory Permeability Tests	p. 370
Constant head permeameter	p. 370
Falling head permeameter	p. 371
Limitations of laboratory permeability tests	p. 373
Field Permeability Tests	p. 375
Percolation Tests for Sewage Disposal System	p. 375
Problems	p. 380
Other Common Soil Tests	p. 383
Introduction	p. 383
Soluble Sulfate	p. 383
Mechanisms of sulfate attack of concrete	p. 386
Sulfate resistance of concrete	p. 387
Laboratory testing	p. 389
Solubility Test	p. 390
Percent soluble soil particles	p. 390
Laboratory Tests for Pavement Design	p. 392
California bearing ratio	p. 393
R-value test	p. 394
Problems	p. 396
Aggregates	p. 397
Introduction	p. 397
Aggregate Properties	p. 399
Internal Moisture Content and Absorption	p. 401
Internal moisture content of coarse aggregates and oversize particles	p. 401
Absorption of coarse aggregates	p. 402
Bulk Specific Gravity	p. 404
Test procedure	p. 404
Calculations for coarse aggregates (SSD state)	p. 408
Calculations for coarse aggregates (dry state)	p. 408
Calculations for oversize particles	p. 409
Example of laboratory test data	p. 409
Problems	p. 409
Subsoil Profiles	p. 413
Introduction	p. 413
Examples of Subsoil Profiles	p. 413
References	p. 421
Glossaries	p. 429
Field Testing Terminology	p. 430
Laboratory Testing Terminology	p. 434
Terminology for Engineering Analysis and Computations	p. 441
Compaction and Grading Terminology	p. 445
Percolation Tests and Related Terminology	p. 451
Compaction and Grading Specifications	p. 455
Percolation Test Procedures	p. 475
Conversion Factors	p. 483
Solutions to Problems	p. 485
Laboratory Data Sheets	p. 555
Index	p. 607
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