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    6.3.3.1 Select Fill Material Shall Be Placed in Lifts of 200 MM Maximum in Loose Depth

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    This document provides standards for excavation and backfill. It specifies lift thickness for placing fill material, with a maximum of 200 mm for select fill and 300 mm for general fill when using hand tools. Other lift thicknesses may be approved based on a field test. Fill material must be compacted at the proper moisture content, within 3% of the optimum moisture content determined by ASTM D1557. Compaction is required until the next lift is placed to maintain stability. The document aims to ensure fill is uniformly placed and properly compacted according to specifications.

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    6.3.3.1 Select Fill Material Shall Be Placed in Lifts of 200 MM Maximum in Loose Depth

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    This document provides standards for excavation and backfill. It specifies lift thickness for placing fill material, with a maximum of 200 mm for select fill and 300 mm for general fill when using hand tools. Other lift thicknesses may be approved based on a field test. Fill material must be compacted at the proper moisture content, within 3% of the optimum moisture content determined by ASTM D1557. Compaction is required until the next lift is placed to maintain stability. The document aims to ensure fill is uniformly placed and properly compacted according to specifications.

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    This document provides standards for excavation and backfill. It specifies lift thickness for placing fill material, with a maximum of 200 mm for select fill and 300 mm for general fill when using hand tools. Other lift thicknesses may be approved based on a field test. Fill material must be compacted at the proper moisture content, within 3% of the optimum moisture content determined by ASTM D1557. Compaction is required until the next lift is placed to maintain stability. The document aims to ensure fill is uniformly placed and properly compacted according to specifications.

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    6.3.3.1 Select Fill Material Shall Be Placed in Lifts of 200 MM Maximum in Loose Depth

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    This document provides standards for excavation and backfill. It specifies lift thickness for placing fill material, with a maximum of 200 mm for select fill and 300 mm for general fill when using hand tools. Other lift thicknesses may be approved based on a field test. Fill material must be compacted at the proper moisture content, within 3% of the optimum moisture content determined by ASTM D1557. Compaction is required until the next lift is placed to maintain stability. The document aims to ensure fill is uniformly placed and properly compacted according to specifications.

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    Document Responsibility: Geotechnical Standards Committee SAES-A-114

    Issue Date: 30 September 2014


    Next Planned Update: 30 September 2019 Excavation and Backfill

    beyond the design edge of the slope and then trimming back
    to achieve the final slope dimensions.

    6.3.3 Fill material shall be placed in uniform loose lifts not exceeding the
    following criteria, provided that the specified compaction is achieved for
    the full depth.

    6.3.3.1 Select Fill Material shall be placed in lifts of 200 mm


    maximum in loose depth.

    6.3.3.2 General Fill Material shall be placed in lifts of 300 mm


    maximum in loose depth.

    6.3.3.3 General Fill Material and Select Fill Material shall be placed
    in lifts of 100 mm maximum in loose depth for hand-operated
    compaction equipment.

    6.3.3.4 Other lift thicknesses may be approved by the appropriate


    Saudi Aramco Inspection Representative based on a field test
    section using the intended compaction equipment and
    verification that compaction was achieved for the full depth.
    Commentary Notes:

    Impact rollers can compact soils in lifts exceeding 1 m.

    See Section 6.4.2.6 for use of a method statement for


    compaction procedure with reduced testing requirements.

    6.3.3.5 If clean sand or dune sand is used for fill, the compacted sand
    shall be kept wet until the next layer is placed.
    Commentary Note:

    Sand that has been allowed to dry out will uncompact under
    vehicle or pedestrian traffic. Continuous watering is required
    to maintain compaction until the next lift is in-place.

    6.3.4 Compacting shall begin only after the fill or backfill has been properly
    placed and the material to be compacted is at the proper moisture content.

    6.3.4.1 The moisture content of the material being compacted shall


    be within 3%, plus or minus, of the optimum moisture content
    as determined by ASTM D1557.

    6.3.4.2 For cohesionless freely draining soils when ASTM D4253/


    ASTM D4254 are the appropriate test procedures, there is no
    applicable optimum moisture content.

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