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PLATE No. 1 GEOTECHNICAL ENGINEERING 1

This document contains 10 problems related to geotechnical engineering calculations involving soil properties such as unit weight, void ratio, saturation, and relative density. Specific calculations required include: 1) determining moisture content, dry unit weight, void ratio, and degree of saturation given moist unit weight and specific gravity, 2) calculating specific gravity, void ratio, and saturated unit weight given other properties, and 3) finding degree of saturation, void ratio, and relative density under various conditions.

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PLATE No. 1 GEOTECHNICAL ENGINEERING 1

This document contains 10 problems related to geotechnical engineering calculations involving soil properties such as unit weight, void ratio, saturation, and relative density. Specific calculations required include: 1) determining moisture content, dry unit weight, void ratio, and degree of saturation given moist unit weight and specific gravity, 2) calculating specific gravity, void ratio, and saturated unit weight given other properties, and 3) finding degree of saturation, void ratio, and relative density under various conditions.

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GEOTECH

NICAL
ENGINEER
ING 1
Plate No.
1

1. 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

2. When the moisture content of a soil is 26%, the degree of saturation


is 72%, and the moist unit weight is 16.98 kN/m3. Determine:

a. Specific gravity of soil solids

b. Void ratio

c. Saturated unit weight

3. For a given soil, the following are known: Gs = 2.74, moist unit
weight is 20.6 kN/m3, and moisture content is 16.6%. Determine:

a. Dry unit weight

b. Void ratio
c. Porosity

d. Degree of saturation

4. Refer to Problem 3. Determine the weight of water, in kN, to be


added per cubic meter (m3) of soil for

a. 90% degree of saturation

b. 100% degree of saturation

5. For a moist soil, given the following: V =

7.08 x 103 m3; W = 136.8 x 10-3 kN; W = 9.8%;

Gs = 2.66. Determine:

a. Dry unit weight


b. Void ratio

c. Volume occupied by water

6. For a given soil, density = 2180 kg/m3 and n = 0.3. Determine:

a. Void ratio

b. Specific gravity of soil solids

7. The moisture content of a soil sample is 17% and the dry unit weight is 16.51 kN/m3. If Gs 2.69, what
is the degree of saturation?

8. The degree of saturation of a soil is 55% and the moist unit weight is 16.66 kN/m3. When the moist
unit weight increased to 17.92 kN/m3, the degree of saturation increased to 82.2%. Determine:

a. Gs

b. Void ratio

9. For a given sandy soil the maximum and minimum void ratios are 0.72 and 0.46, respectively. If Gs =
2.68 and w = 11%, what is the moist unit weight of compaction (kN/m3) in the field if Dr = 82%?

10. In a construction project, the field moist unit weight was 18.08 kN/m3 at a moisture content of
8%. If maximum and minimum dry unit weight determined in the laboratory were 16.93 kN/m3 and
14.46 kN/m3, respectively, what was the field relative density?

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