SOIL COMPACTION VERIFICATION

While conducting their maintenance activities, utilities must break and restore pavement. During pavement restoration, it is vitally important to ensure adequate compaction of the soil. To ensure that specified standards are met, tests have evolved that are well-suited to highway construction, but poorly suited to utility operations. A novel approach that attempts to address this problem is being tested. In the course of an intensive experimental effort, it was found that relatively simple, inexpensive devices could be used to verify compaction in a wide variety of soils. Further confirmatory work has been scheduled.

• Supplemental Notes:
  • Presented at American Gas Association Distribution/Transmission Conference, Chicago, 28 April 1986.
• Corporate Authors:

  Institute of Gas Technology

  3424 South State Street
  Chicago, IL  United States  60616
• Authors:
  • Todres, H A
• Publication Date: 1986

Media Info

• Pagination: 13 p.

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Measurement; Pavement maintenance; Public utilities; Soil compaction; Test procedures
• Uncontrolled Terms: Utilities
• Subject Areas: Geotechnology; Highways; Maintenance and Preservation; I42: Soil Mechanics;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00472329
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Energy Research Abstracts
• Report/Paper Numbers: CONF-8604218-5, TI8879004400
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Sep 30 1987 12:00AM