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Geotechnical Problems

This document contains 9 problems related to soil properties including clay, sand, and silty clay. The problems provide data like volume, dry weight, saturated weight and ask to calculate properties like void ratio, porosity, water content, specific gravity, unit weights, shrinkage ratio and relative density. It also asks to explain the double layer effect, cation exchange capacity and adsorbed water layer and how they affect clay's performance as a bearing material.

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Geotechnical Problems

This document contains 9 problems related to soil properties including clay, sand, and silty clay. The problems provide data like volume, dry weight, saturated weight and ask to calculate properties like void ratio, porosity, water content, specific gravity, unit weights, shrinkage ratio and relative density. It also asks to explain the double layer effect, cation exchange capacity and adsorbed water layer and how they affect clay's performance as a bearing material.

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4. A sample of soft saturated clay has a volume of 100 cu. cm.

and weighs 175


grams. If drying the clay leaves a weight of 120 grams, compute for the
water content, the void ratio and the specific gravity of the clay.
Given: REQUIRED:
V 100 cu.cm W ?
WS 175g e ?
Wd 120g Gs ?

5. A dry sand is placed in a container having a volume of 0.0089 cm3. The


dry weight of the sample is 0.014 grams. Water is carefully added to the
container so as not to be disturb the condition of the sand. When the
container is filled, the combined weight of the of soil plus water is 0.0174
grams. With this, find the void ratio, the porosity, the water content, the
specific gravity the pertinent unit weights of the soil sample.
GIVEN: REQUIRED:
V 0.0089 e ?
Yd 0.014g n ?
WS 0.0174g w ?
GS ?
6. A silty clay has a plastic limit of 25 and a plasticity index of 30. If the
liquidity index is 0.20, compute the water content, degree of saturation and
the moist unit weight if the soil has a specific gravity of 2.7 and a void
ratio of 0.92.
GIVEN: REQUIRED:
PL 25 W ?
PI 30 S ?
LI 0.20 Y ?
7. A SATURATED 100 CM3CLAY SAMPLE HAS A NATURAL WATER CONTENT OF 30%.
IT IS FOUND THAT THE SHRINKAGE LIMIT OCCURS WHEN THE WATER CONTENT
IS 19%. IF THE SPECIFIC GRAVITY OF THE SOIL IS 2.70, COMPUTE THE
SHRINKAGE RATIO, THE VOLUME OF THE SAMPLE WHEN THE WATER CONTENT IS
15% AND THE MASS OF THE DRY SOIL SAMPLE.

8. THE LOOSENESS OR DENSENESS OF SANDY SOILS CAN BE EXPRESSED NUMERICALLY BY


THE SO-CALLED RELATIVE DENSITY, DR AND IS DEFINED BY THE FOLLOWING EQUATIONS:
9. READ ON THE PROPERTIES OF CLAY KNOWN AS “DOUBLE LAYER EFFECT“,
“CATION EXCHANGE CAPACITY“, AND “ADSORBED WATER LAYER“ AND WRITE A
SHORT EXPLANATION ON ITS EFFECT ON CLAY’S PERFORMANCE AS A BEARING
MATERIAL.

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