Continue to Site

Eng-Tips is the largest engineering community on the Internet

Intelligent Work Forums for Engineering Professionals

Register Log in
  • Congratulations SSS148 on being selected by the Eng-Tips community for having the most helpful posts in the forums last week. Way to Go!

Search results for query: *

  • Users: samg11
  • Order by date
  1. samg11

    Schmertman's method

    A 20 ft thick layer of fill (SP material) has been placed in a ravine to level out a site for construction. The contractor claims that the fill has been compacted to 95% of the modified Proctor value but can produce no test results except for the top 5 ft. A borehole is drilled and SPT tests are...
  2. samg11

    Soil Properties

    Why should compacted fill below a footing be at least two time as wide as the footing? Thanks!

Part and Inventory Search

Back
Top Bottom