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    Soil Mechanics homework 1 and 2

    dries lemmens
    November 2022

    1 Homework 1
    1.1 Soluition a
    To calculate the PDC, we need to calculate the percentage of soil that is finer than the sieve used.
    This is done by first calculating the percent retained, then the cumulative percent retained. The
    percentage of finer soil is found by subtracting 100% by the cumulative percentage retained soil.
    These values can be found in table below.

    sieve size (mm) M r (g) % retained Sum % retained % finer


    14 0 0 0 100
    10 3.5 1.20 1.20 98.80
    6.3 7.6 2.60 3.80 96.20
    5 7 2.39 6.19 93.81
    3.35 14.3 4.89 11.08 88.92
    2 21.1 7.22 18.30 81.70
    1.18 56.7 19.40 37.70 62.30
    0.6 73.4 25.11 62.81 37.19
    0.425 22.2 7.59 70.41 29.59
    0.3 26.9 9.20 79.61 20.39
    0.212 18.4 6.29 85.90 14.10
    0.15 15.2 5.20 91.11 8.89
    0.075 17.5 5.99 97.09 2.91
    Mass passing 8.5 2.91 100.00 0.00
    Total mass 292.3 100.00

    1
    1.2 Soluition b
    To calculate the percentage of each type of soil we need to use the % retained column of the table.
    Clay and silt will fall through the p200 sieve. This colmes down to 2.91%. Sand will fall will fall
    through the sieve with 2 mm opening. This is 86.01%. Finally gravel makes up for 11.08% of the
    sample.

    1.3 Soluition c
    To find out the USCS class we will need to follow the flowchart in, the course notes on page 34. If
    we follow the PD curve we can find values for:

    D60 = 1.1 (1)


    D30 = 0.44 (2)
    D10 = 0.18 (3)
    (4)

    D60
    Cu = = 6.11 (5)
    D10

    2
    2
    D30
    Cc = = 0.98 (6)
    D10 ∗ D60
    Following the flowchart, the soil is a course grained soil SP. Which means a poorly graded sandy
    soil. This makes sense because the soil consists of 86.01% sand.

    2 Homework 2
    2.1 Unit weights
    To calculate the stresses we need the unit weights. We assume a value of 2.7 for Gs for 0 to 2 meters:

    w ∗ Gs 0.05 ∗ 2.7
    e= = = 0.34 (7)
    S 0.4
    Gs ∗ (1 + w) 2.7 ∗ (1 + 0.05
    γ= ∗ γw = ∗ 10 = 21.16kP a (8)
    1+e 1 + 0.34
    For 2 to 5.4 meters:
    w ∗ Gs 0.2 ∗ 2.7
    e= = = 0.54 (9)
    S 1
    Gs + e 2.7 + 0.54
    γs at = ∗ γw = ∗ 10 = 21.04kP a (10)
    1+e 1 + 0.54
    For 5.4 to 20.6 meters:
    w ∗ Gs 0.28 ∗ 2.7
    e= = = 0.76 (11)
    S 1
    Gs ∗ (1 + w) 2.7 ∗ (1 + 0.76
    γs at = ∗ γw = ∗ 10 = 19.66kP a (12)
    1+e 1 + 0.76

    2.2 Stresses
    To calculate the total vertical stresses σv we use formula 13.
    X
    σv = (γi ∗ zi ) (13)

    For the water pressure uw we use formula 14.

    uw = γw ∗ zw (14)

    And for the vertical effective stresses formula 15.

    σv′ = σv − uw (15)

    to calculate the horizontal stress formula 16 and 17 are needed.

    σh′ = K0 ∗ σv′ (16)

    3
    K0 = 1 − sin(ϕ) (17)
    In the table below you will find the values for all four stresses mentioned above. The graph shows
    the stresses versus depth.

    depth (m) z (m) σv (kPa) uw (kPa) σv′ stress (kPa) ϕ (degrees) K0 σv′ (kPa)
    0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 29 0.52 0.00
    2.00 2.00 42.31 -10.00 52.31 29 0.52 26.95
    3.00 1.00 63.35 0.00 63.35 32 0.47 29.78
    5.40 2.40 113.85 20.00 93.85 / / /
    20.60 15.20 412.66 170.00 242.66 / / /

    To calculate the horizontal effective stresses below the water table (a depth of z = 5.4 + m) the
    value of K0 will depend on the coefficient of poisson v. The value of the poisson coefficient of the
    soil can be determined by various in situ tests of soil monsters.

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