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PROBLEM: An Undisturbed: Properties of Soil Related Problems

This document provides 5 soil property problems involving calculations of void ratio, porosity, degree of saturation, bulk unit weight, dry unit weight, and water content. The first problem involves calculating the water content, saturated unit weight, and dry unit weight of a soil sample with a given void ratio and specific gravity.

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PROBLEM: An Undisturbed: Properties of Soil Related Problems

This document provides 5 soil property problems involving calculations of void ratio, porosity, degree of saturation, bulk unit weight, dry unit weight, and water content. The first problem involves calculating the water content, saturated unit weight, and dry unit weight of a soil sample with a given void ratio and specific gravity.

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γ d= (9.81)
PROPERTIES OF SOIL RELATED 1+ 0.81
PROBLEMS kN
γ d =14.58 3
m
1. PROBLEM: An undisturbed
soil sample in saturated 2. (58) A soil sample has a bulk
condition has a void ratio of unit weight of 19.6 kN/m 3, at
0.81 and sp.gr. of 2.69. Find water content of 10%.
the following: Determine the following if the
a) Water content sp.gr. Gs = 2.7.
b) Saturated unit weight a) Void ratio
c) Dry unit weight b) Percentage air in voids (air
voids)
GIVEN: c) Degree of saturation
s=1 3. (78) A sample of soft
saturated clay has a natural
e=0.81
water content of 43%. The
GS =2.69 specific gravity of the solid
matter is 2.70. Compute the
SOLUTION: following:
a) Void ratio.
a) Water content b) Porosity.
c) Saturated unit weigh
𝑠=𝑆ꞷ𝑒
4. (85) A soil sample has a
𝑒=𝐺𝑆ꞷ (for saturated soil) natural water content of
22.5% and it is known to
0.81=ꞷ (2.69) have a specific gravity of 2.6.
In order to determine the
ꞷ=𝟎.𝟑𝟎𝟏 𝒐𝒓 𝟑𝟎.𝟏% moist density of the soil, a
portion of soil weighing 224 g
b) Saturated unit weight
is put in a 500 cm³ container.
GS + e It is filled with 382 cm³ of
γ sat = γ water to fill the container.
1+e W
a) Compute the porosity of
2.69+0.81
γ sat = (9.81) the soil
1+0.81 b) Compute the degree of
kN saturation.
γ sat =18.97 3
m c) Compute the bulk sp. gr.
5. The total weight of soil when
c) Dry unit weight saturated is 1526 g and the
Gs weight of the soil after drying
γ d= γ is 1053 g. If the specific
1+ e W
gravity of soil is 2.84.
a) Compute the moisture
content
b) Compute the void ratio
c) Compute the porosity

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