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Oils and Aterials Eport: Site Investigation Manual - 2002 Soils and Materials Report

The document provides guidance on preparing a Soils and Materials Report to summarize the results of field and laboratory investigations for a road project. The report should include information on climate, geology, field investigations of subgrades and construction materials, laboratory test results, locations of problem soils and structures requiring foundations, as well as recommendations regarding subgrades, materials selection, and special construction considerations. Suggested report sections and contents are also outlined.

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Oils and Aterials Eport: Site Investigation Manual - 2002 Soils and Materials Report

The document provides guidance on preparing a Soils and Materials Report to summarize the results of field and laboratory investigations for a road project. The report should include information on climate, geology, field investigations of subgrades and construction materials, laboratory test results, locations of problem soils and structures requiring foundations, as well as recommendations regarding subgrades, materials selection, and special construction considerations. Suggested report sections and contents are also outlined.

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Chapter 8

Site Investigation Manual - 2002 Soils and Materials Report

8. SOILS AND MATERIALS REPORT

A Soils and Materials Report should be prepared upon completion of all the field and
laboratory investigations, summarizing all their results in such a manner as to be readily
usable by the design engineers (i.e. pavement, highway, foundation engineers, possibly
including structural engineers).

Location maps of materials (borrow pits and quarries in particular) are particularly
useful, and should be attached, from which materials utilization diagrams may be
prepared to optimize haulage of pavement materials.

All the potential soil problems encountered, such as swelling clays, etc., as well as the
locations of structures requiring foundation design, should be indicated in the soils and
materials report.

Note: It is, however, beyond the scope of the report to detail definite and comprehensive
solutions to the soils problems encountered, or to offer foundation design
recommendations.

A suggested table of contents for the Soils and Materials Report is as follows:

Soils and Materials Report

Table of Contents

1. INTRODUCTION
1.1 Project Background (General Description of Project)
1.2 Location, accessibility, existing facilities
1.3 Purpose and scope of the report (stage of the study for which the report is
intended)

2. CLIMATE, GEOLOGY AND TOPOGRAPHY


2.1 Physiography
2.2 Climate
2.3 Geological Setting

3. FIELD INVESTIGATIONS
3.1 General
3.2 Subgrade Investigations
3.3 Construction materials survey
3.3.1 Soil Borrow Areas
3.3.2 Gravel Borrow Pits
3.3.3 Crushed Stone Quarries
3.3.4 Sand Quarries
3.3.5 Water Sources

4. LABORATORY INVESTIGATIONS
4.1 General
4.2 Subgrade
4.3 Investigations for Construction Materials

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Chapter 8
Soils and Materials Report Site Investigation Manual - 2002

5. FOUNDATION INVESTIGATIONS

6. CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS


6.1 General
6.2 Subgrade
6.3 Construction Materials
6.4 Foundations
6.5 Special Problems and construction considerations

List of Abbreviations

List of Tables

Suggestions are:
- Mean monthly rainfall
- Mean monthly temperatures (maximum and minimum)
- Summary of soil borrow pits
- Gravel quarries
- Crushed stone quarries
- Sources of sand
- Water sources
- Number of tests carried out at various laboratories
- Laboratory tests results: soil borrow materials
- Laboratory tests results: gravel borrow pits
- Laboratory tests results: crushed stone aggregates
- Laboratory tests results: sand
- Laboratory tests results: water

List of Figures

Suggestions are:
- Location Map
- Typical roadway cross-sections
- Soil Borrow Pits Locations
- Gravel Borrow Pits Locations
- Sand and Stone Quarries Locations

List of Appendices

Suggestions are:
- General Roadway Profile
- Test Pit and/or Boring Log Legend/Description
- Test Pits and/or Boring Logs
- In-situ density tests results for subgrade soils
- DCP tests results
- Laboratory Tests Results

Photographs

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