LABORATORY STUDIES OF MAXIMUM AND MINIMUM DRY DENSITIES OF COHESIONLESS SOILS

SOME OF THE DIFFERENCES IN RESULTS OF TESTS FOR THE MAXIMUM AND MINIMUM DRY DENSITIES OF COHESIONLESS SOILS ARE EXAMINED. A COMPARATIVE TEST PROGRAM TO INVESTIGATE REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS OF MAXIMUM AND MINIMUM DENSITIES FOR TWO TYPES OF SANDS IS DISCUSSED, AND AN EMPIRICAL CORRELATION OF THE UNIFORMITY COEFFICIENT VERSUS MAXIMUM AND MINIMUM DENSITIES IS PRESENTED. A COMPARISON IS MADE OF THE PROVIDENCE VIBRATED DENSITY METHOD AND THE VIBRATORY TABLE METHOD. IT IS SHOWN THAT ONE OF THE IMPORTANT VARIABLES IN DETERMINING THE MAXIMUM DENSITY OF COHESIONLESS SOILS USING THE VIBRATORY TABLE METHOD IS THE AMPLITUDE OF THE VIBRATING MOLD. /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:
  • Johnston, DDA
• Publication Date: 1973-7

Language

• English

Media Info

• Features: Figures; References; Tables;
• Pagination: p. 133-140
• Serial:
  • ASTM Special Technical Publications
  • Issue Number: 523
  • Publisher: American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM)

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Amplitude; Compaction; Density; Dry density; Granular soils; Laboratory studies; Measurement; Sand; Soils; Test procedures; Tests; Vibration; Vibratory equipment
• Uncontrolled Terms: Reproducibility
• Old TRIS Terms: Density measurement; Dry density (Soils); Non-cohesive soil; Vibrating equipment
• ITRD Terms: 6988: Amplitude; 3686: Compaction; 5908: Density; 4109: Non cohesive soil; 5927: Reproducibility; 4105: Sand; 4156: Soil; 6255: Test; 5558: Vibration
• Subject Areas: Geotechnology; Highways;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00080559
• 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