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Title:
Soil properties : testing, measurement and evaluation
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Edition:
4th ed.
Publication Information:
Upper Saddle River, NJ : Prentice-Hall, 2000
Physical Description:
1 computer disk ; 3 1/2 in
ISBN:
9780130200693
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Accompanies text with the same title :(TA710 L58 2000 f)
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Guides students through the hows and whys of the commonly used testing methods in civil engineering practice - those based on the American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM) and American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO) procedures.


Table of Contents

1 Introduction
2 Description and Identification of Soils (Visual-Manual Procedure)
3 Determining the Moisture Content of Soil (Conventional Oven Method)
4 Determining the Moisture Content of Soil (Microwave Oven Method)
5 Determining the Specific Gravity of Soil
6 Determining the Liquid Limit of Soil
7 Determining the Plastic Limit and Plasticity Index of Soil
8 Determining the Shrinkage Limit of Soil
9 Grain-Size Analysis of Soil (Including Both Mechanical and Hydrometer Analyses)
10 Classification of Soils for Engineering Purposes
11 Determining Moisture-Unit Weight Relations of Soil (Compaction Test)
12 Determining the Moisture Content of Soil (By Means of a Calcium Carbide Gas Moisture Tester)
13 Determining the Density and Unit Weight of Soil in Place by the Sand-Cone Method
14 Determining the Density and Unit Weight of Soil in Place by the Rubber-Balloon Method
15 Determining the Density and Unit Weight of Soil in Place by Nuclear Methods
16 Percolation Test
17 Permeability Test for Granular Soils (Constant-Head Method)
18 Permeability Test for Fine-Grained and Granular Soils (Falling-Head Method)
19 Consolidation Test
20 Determining the Unconfined Compressive Strength of Cohesive Soil
21 Triaxial Compression Test
22 Direct Shear Test
23 California Bearing Ratio Test
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