EFFECT OF VARIATIONS IN MINIMUM DENSITY ON RELATIVE DENSITY

THIS PAPER DESCRIBES THE RESULTS OF AN INVESTIGATION CARRIED OUT TO STUDY THE EFFECT OF VARIATIONS IN MINIMUM DENSITY ON RELATIVE DENSITY TEST RESULTS. THE MATERIAL SELECTED FOR THE INVESTIGATION WAS OBTAINED DURING CONSTRUCTION OF KETTLE GENERATING STATION. THE TEST RESULTS WERE STATISTICALLY ANALYSED. FOR THE MATERIALS TESTED, THE INFLUENCE OF VARIATIONS IN MINIMUM DENSITY ON RELATIVE DENSITY RESULTS IS STARTLING. THIS CREATES A DILEMMA FOR EFFECTIVE QUALITY CONTROL IN THE FIELD IN TERMS OF ENFORCING THE REQUIREMENTS OF DESIGN AS SPELLED OUT IN A CONTRACT SPECIFICATION BASED ON PERCENTAGE RELATIVE DENSITY. /AUTHOR/

• Supplemental Notes:
  • Presented at the 75th Annual Meeting, Los Angeles, June 25-30, 1972.
• Corporate Authors:

  American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM)

  100 Barr Harbor Drive, P.O. Box C700
  West Conshohocken, PA  United States  19428-2957
• Authors:
  • Gupta, R C
  • McKeown, J D
• Publication Date: 1973-7

Language

• English

Media Info

• Features: Figures; References; Tables;
• Pagination: p. 85-97
• Serial:
  • ASTM Special Technical Publications
  • Issue Number: 523
  • Publisher: American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM)

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Density; Granular soils; Laboratory tests; Quality control; Soils; Specific gravity; Statistical analysis; Statistics; Surveillance; Tests; Variables
• Uncontrolled Terms: Quality
• Old TRIS Terms: Non-cohesive soil
• ITRD Terms: 5908: Density; 4109: Non cohesive soil; 9063: Quality; 4156: Soil; 6555: Statistics; 9101: Surveillance; 6255: Test; 9086: Variability
• Subject Areas: Data and Information Technology; Geotechnology; Highways;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00080555
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Transport and Road Research Laboratory (TRRL)
• Report/Paper Numbers: Conf Paper, A
• Files: ITRD, TRIS
• Created Date: Feb 27 1975 12:00AM