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    Soil meeting compaction and moisture requirements but still showing significant pumping

    We are placing fill for a dam project upstream side, fairly high up. It will likely only see water for a ~25 year event. No structure on it. The fill material is a silty sand (SM) (~18% fines) being placed in 12in loose lifts. It has very little cohesion. The contractor is doing a great job...
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    ASTM Steel Chemical Composition Standards

    Hi I am a relatively new engineer so I apologize in advance if I am asking an obvious question. I've been tasked with an interesting, but slightly out of my field problem that has to do with the chemical composition of steel. I am trying to compare test samples of steel components against ASTM...

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