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This document provides 5 soil mechanics problems to solve involving calculations of moist unit weight, dry unit weight, void ratio, degree of saturation, and porosity given information such as volume, mass, moisture content, and specific gravity of soil solids. Students are asked to determine various soil properties based on standard soil mechanics formulas and relationships between properties. The assignment is due on October 15th, 2015.

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This document provides 5 soil mechanics problems to solve involving calculations of moist unit weight, dry unit weight, void ratio, degree of saturation, and porosity given information such as volume, mass, moisture content, and specific gravity of soil solids. Students are asked to determine various soil properties based on standard soil mechanics formulas and relationships between properties. The assignment is due on October 15th, 2015.

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PAT 203 Soil Mechanics

Department of Civil Engineering Technology


Assignment 1

1. The moist weight of 2.83 x 10 -3 m3 of soil is 55.5 x 10 -3 kN/m3. If the moisture content
is 14 % and the specific gravity of soil solids is 2.71, determine the following:
a) Moist unit weight
b) Dry unit weight
c) Void ratio

2. The moist unit weight of a soil is 19.2 kN/m3. Given that Gs = 2.69 and w = 9.8%,
determine:
a) Void ratio
b) Dry unit weight
c) Degree of saturation

3. Undisturbed soil sample was collected from the field in steel Shelby tubes for
laboratory evaluation. The tube sample has a diameter of 71 mm., length of 558 mm
and a moist weight of 42.5 x 10-3 kN. If the oven dried weight was 37.85 x 10 -3 kN,
and Gs = 2.69, calculate the following:
a) Moist unit weight
b) Field moisture content
c) Dry unit weight
d) Void ratio
e) Degree of saturation

4. For a given soil, the following are known Gs = 2.74, moist unit weight = 20.6 kN/m3
and moisture content w = 16.6 %. Determine:
a) Dry unit weight
b) Void ratio
c) Porosity
d) Degree of saturation

5. The moist density of a soil is 1750 kg/m3. Given w = 23% and Gs = 2.73, determine :
a) Dry density
b) Porosity
c) Degree of saturation
d) Mass of water in kg/m3 to be added to reach full saturation.

Please submit before : 15th OCTOBER 2015

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