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    Index Properties of Soils

    Definition:-

    Various physical and engineering properties with the help of which a soil can be properly
    identified and classified are called the index properties.

    Function of Index Properties:-

    Soil index properties are properties that facilitate the identification and classification of soils for
    engineering purposes.

    These properties are generally determined in the laboratory.

    Soil index properties

    The properties of soil index which are non-cohesive in nature are:

    1) Particle size distribution

    2) Particle shape

    3) Relative density

    4) Consistency

    5) Clay and clay mineral content

    6) Cohesive soil index properties are

    7) Consistency

    8) Particle shape and its orientation

    9) Clay or clay mineral content.

    10) water content in the soil.

    The particle size distribution:-

    curve is a graph that is generated to illustrate the average particle size, the smallest
    particle size, and the largest particle size. The curve illustrates either the amount of material
    that passes through or is retained on each sieve.
    Particle Size distribution curve plotted in semi log Graph Paper. % Finer Along Y axis (Normal
    Scale) and Particle size Along X axis (log Scale )

    One more thing is to note here is that the size of the grains is plotted on log scale because
    range of the particle sizes is very very large. It will be very difficult to plot this range on the
    normal scale. Using log scale we can represent the whole range of particle sizes in just one
    graph.

    Well graded soil contains a good representation of all particle sizes from largest to smallest

    Uniformly graded soil : Most of the particle are same size

    A gap-graded soil:- is a soil that has an excess or deficiency of certain particle sizes or a soil
    that has at least one particle size missing.

    Uniformity Coefficient (Cu) which is a measure of the uniformity of grain size in the soil and is
    defined as the ratio of the 60% finer size (D60) to D10.

    Coefficient of curvature (Cc) Which is the ratio (D30)2/(D10 * D60)

    where D60, D30, and D10 are the particle diameters corresponding to 60, 30 and 10% fine on
    the cumulative particle size distribution curve, respectively.

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