Name: ______________________________________________________ CE161P GEOTECHNICAL ENGINEERING (SOIL MECHANICS)

Student Number: ___________________________________________ 2nd quarter | 2018-2019 | Engr. CHENNIE CARISSA A. CAJA

HOMEWORK 02
SOIL PHASE RELATIONSHIPS

Answer the following problems. Write your solutions on short bond papers and box your final answer.

1. The moist weight of 2.83 x 10-3 m3 of soil is a. dry unit weight

55.5 x 10-3 kN/m3. If the moisture content is b. void ratio
14% and the specific gravity of soil solids is c. volume occupied by water
2.71, determine the following:
a. moist unit weight 6. The moisture content of a soil sample is 17%
b. dry unit weight and the dry unit weight is 16.51 kN/m 3. If
c. void ratio Gs=2.69, what is the degree of saturation?
d. porosity
e. degree of saturation 7. For a given soil, w=18.2%, Gs=2.67 and
f. volume occupied by water S=80%. Determine:
a. moist unit weight, in kN/m3
2. Undisturbed soil sample was collected from b. volume occupied by water
the field in steel Shelby tubes for laboratory
evaluation. The tube sample has a diameter of 8. For a given sandy soil, emax=0.75 and
71 mm, length of 558 mm, and a moist unit emin=0.52. If Gs=2.67 and Dr=65%, determine:
weight of 42.5 x 10-3 kN. If the oven-dried a. void ratio
weight was 37.85 x 10-3 kN, and Gs=2.69, b. dry unit weight
calculate the following:
a. moist unit weight 9. For a given sandy soil, the maximum and
b. field moisture content minimum void ratios are 0.72 and 0.46,
c. dry unit weight respectively. If Gs=2.68 and w=11%, what is
d. void ratio the moist unit weight of compaction in the
e. degree of saturation field if Dr=82%?

3. When the moisture content of a soil is 26%,
the degree of saturation is 72%, and the moist
unit weight is 16.98 kN/m3, determine the
following:
a. specific gravity of soil solids
b. void ratio
c. saturated unit weight
10. In a construction project, the field moist unit
weight was 18.08 kN/m3 at a moisture content
of 8%. If maximum and minimum dry unit
weight determined in the laboratory were
16.93 kN/m3 and 14.46 kN/m3, respectively,
what was the field relative density?

4. The moist density of a soil is 1750 kg/m3.

Given w=23% and Gs=2.73, determine the
following:
a. dry density
b. porosity
c. degree of saturation
d. mass of water, in kg/m3, to be added to
reach full saturation

5. For a moist soil, given the following: V=7.08 x

10-3 m3; W=136.8 x 10-3 kN; w=9.8%, Gs=2.66.
Determine:
Name: ______________________________________________________ CE161P GEOTECHNICAL ENGINEERING (SOIL MECHANICS)
Student Number: ___________________________________________ 2nd quarter | 2018-2019 | Engr. CHENNIE CARISSA A. CAJA

HOMEWORK 02
INDEX PROPERTIES OF SOILS

Answer the following problems. Write your solutions on short bond papers and box your final answer.

1. The following are the results of a shrinkage limit Water content

test: Test No. 1 2
Initial volume of soil in Weight of wet soil +
saturated state 24.6 cc container 22.10g 21.77g
Final volume of soil in a dry Weight of dry soil +
state 15.9 cc container 20.42g 20.19g
Initial mass in a saturated state 44 g Weight of container 13.07g 13.18g
Final mass in a dry state 30.1 g
a. Calculate the liquid limit.
a. Determine the dry density of soil in b. Calculate the plastic limit.
gram/cc. c. Determine the state of soil.
b. Determine the void ration of the soil.
c. Determine the shrinkage limit of the soil. 3. In a liquid limit test, using cone penetrometer, the
d. Determine the shrinkage ratio. following readings were recorded:
e. Determine the specific gravity of the Moisture content Cone penetration
solids. (%) (mm)
32.1 14.4
2. The following data shows the result of the Liquid 41.6 16.4
Limit and Plastic Limit tests. 51.8 18.2
64.2 21.1
Liquid Limit 72.6 22.3
Test No. 1 2 3 4
No. of Plastic Limit test
blows 35 21 16 11 Weight of wet soil + container = 22.12 g
Weight Weight of dry soil + container = 21.42 g
of wet Weight of container = 13.07 g
soil +
container 22.46g 21.33g 21.29g 26.12g Natural Water Content test
Weight Weight of wet soil + container = 17.53 g
of dry Weight of dry soil + container = 14.84 g
soil + Weight of container = 7.84 g
container 19.44g 18.75g 18.78g 22.10g
Weight Compute the following:
of
a. Liquid limit
container 12.76g 13.05g 13.21g 13.52g
b. Plastic limit
c. Natural water content
Plastic Limit
d. Plasticity index
Test No. 1 2
e. Liquidity index
Weight of wet soil +
container 22.10g 21.77g f. Consistency index
Weight of dry soil +
container 20.42g 20.19g 4. A saturated soil has the following characteristics:
Weight of container 13.07g 13.18g Initial volume = 25 cm3
Final volume = 16 cm3
Mass of wet soil = 45 g
Mass of dry soil = 31 g

Determine the following:

a. Shrinkage limit of the soil
b. Shrinkage ratio
c. Specific gravity of soil solids
Name: ______________________________________________________ CE161P GEOTECHNICAL ENGINEERING (SOIL MECHANICS)
Student Number: ___________________________________________ 2nd quarter | 2018-2019 | Engr. CHENNIE CARISSA A. CAJA

HOMEWORK 02
SOIL CLASSIFICATION SCHEMES

Answer the following problems. Write your solutions on short bond papers and box your final answer.

1. Classify the following soil using the U.S. For this soil, LL=23 and PL=19. Classify the soil by
Department of Agriculture textural classification using:
chart. a. AASHTO soil classification
b. Unified soil classification system
Particle- Soil
Size Give group names and group symbols.
distribution A B
(%)
Gravel 10 0 4. A sample of inorganic soil has the following grain
Sand 20 18 size characteristics:
Silt 41 24
Clay 29 58 Size (mm) Percent passing
2.0 (No. 10) 95
0.075 (No. 200) 75
2. The result of the sieve analysis is shown below:
The liquid limit is 56 percent and the plasticity
Mass Cumulat Perce index is 25 percent. Classify the soil according to
Sieve Diamet
Retained ive Mass nt
No. er (mm) AASHTO classification system.
(grams) Retained Finer
4 4.76 25
8 2.38 80
10 2.00 110 5. For a large project, a soil investigation was carried
20 0.84 160 out. Grain-size analysis carried out on the samples
40 0.42 180 gave the following test results:
60 0.25 220
80 0.180 380
100 0.149 590 Percent
Sieve No.
200 0.074 110 finer
Pan 85 4 96
10 60
20 18
a. What percentage of the soil is retained in 40 12
No. 200 sieve? 60 7
b. What is the effective grain size of the soil 100 4
in mm? 200 2
c. Determine the uniformity coefficient.
Classify the soil by using the Unified Soil
Classification System assuming the soil is
3. For an inorganic soil, the following grain-size nonplastic.
analysis is given.

U.S. Sieve Percent

No. Passing
4 100
10 90
20 64
40 38
80 18
200 13
Name: ______________________________________________________ CE161P GEOTECHNICAL ENGINEERING (SOIL MECHANICS)
Student Number: ___________________________________________ 2nd quarter | 2018-2019 | Engr. CHENNIE CARISSA A. CAJA

HOMEWORK 02
SOIL CLASSIFICATION SCHEMES

USDA Classification
Name: ______________________________________________________ CE161P GEOTECHNICAL ENGINEERING (SOIL MECHANICS)
Student Number: ___________________________________________ 2nd quarter | 2018-2019 | Engr. CHENNIE CARISSA A. CAJA

HOMEWORK 02
SOIL CLASSIFICATION SCHEMES

AASHTO Soil Classification System

*For A-7-5, PI ≤ LL – 30
*For A-7-6, PI > LL – 30

Unified Soil Classification System (USCS)