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Soil Properties Additional Problems

The document provides 10 practice problems related to geotechnical engineering soil properties. The problems cover topics like determining degree of saturation, unit weights, water content, void ratio, and quantity of water required to change moisture content for a given soil sample or volume of soil. Solutions are not provided, just the problems for additional practice.

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Soil Properties Additional Problems

The document provides 10 practice problems related to geotechnical engineering soil properties. The problems cover topics like determining degree of saturation, unit weights, water content, void ratio, and quantity of water required to change moisture content for a given soil sample or volume of soil. Solutions are not provided, just the problems for additional practice.

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CEGTEC30: Geotechnical Engineering

Soil Properties
Additional Practice Problems

January 8, 2024

1. A soil mass in its natural state is partially saturated having a water content of 17.5% and a void ratio
of 0.87. Determine the degree of saturation, total unit weight, and dry unit weight. What is the weight
of water required to saturate a mass of 10 m3 volume? Assume Gs = 2.69.
2. The void ratio of a clay sample is 0.5 and the degree of saturation is 70%. Compute the water content
and dry and wet unit weights of the soil. Assume Gs = 2.7.
3. A sample of soil compacted according to a standard Proctor test has a unit weight of 130.9 lb/ft3 at
100% compaction and optimum water content of 14%. What is the dry unit weight? If the voids
become filled with water what would be the saturated unit weight? Assume Gs = 2.67.
4. How many cubic meters of fill can be constructed at a void ratio of 0.7 from 119, 000 m3 of a borrow
material with a void ratio of 1.2?

5. The natural water content of a sample taken from a soil deposit was found to be 11.5%. It has been
calculated that the maximum density for the soil will be obtained when the water content reaches
21.5%. Compute how much water must be added to 22, 500 lb of soil (in its natural state) to increase
the water content to 21.5%. Assume that the degree of saturation in its natural state was 40% and Gs
= 2.7.
6. In a field exploration, a soil sample was collected in a sampling tube of internal diameter
5.0 cm below the groundwater table. The length of the extracted sample was 10.2 cm and its mass
was 387 g. If Gs = 2.7, and the mass of the dried sample is 313 g, find the porosity, void ratio, degree
of saturation, and the dry density of the sample.
7. An undisturbed sample of soil has a volume of 29 cm3 and weighs 48 g. The dry weight of the sample
is 32 g. The value of Gs = 2.66. Determine the (a) natural water content, (b) in-situ void ratio, (c)
degree of saturation, and (d) saturated unit weight of the soil.

8. A mass of soil coated with a thin layer of paraffin weighs 0.982 lb. When immersed in water it
displaces 0.011302 ft3 of water. The paraffin is peeled off and found to weigh 0.0398 lb. The specific
gravity of the soil particles is 2.7 and that of paraffin is 0.9. Determine the void ratio of the soil if its
water content is 10%.
9. A 50 cm3 sample of moist clay was obtained by pushing a sharpened hollow cylinder into the wall of
a test pit. The extruded sample had a mass of 85 g, and after oven drying a mass of 60 g. Compute
w, e, S, and ρd. Gs = 2.7.
10. An earthen embankment under construction has a total unit weight of 99.9 lb/ft3 and a mois- ture
content of 10 percent. Compute the quantity of water required to be added per 100 ft3 of earth to raise
its moisture content to 14 percent at the same void ratio.

Prepared by: Marc Erick Von A. Tiosing, RCE, RMP

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