Continue to Site

Eng-Tips is the largest engineering community on the Internet

Intelligent Work Forums for Engineering Professionals

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

Water Content of a soil sample

Status
Not open for further replies.
Geoote

Geoote

Geotechnical
Jun 21, 2021
1
I got soil from a lake that has calcium carbonate. The grain size analysis shows it is silt and is nonplastic. The water content is varying from 150 to 250% and the liquid limit is more than 250%. is it possible? if possible how?
 
Replies continue below

Recommended for you

Sort by date Sort by votes
Yes it is possible and your probably in a peat. You can also look up the references for flushing meadows and diatomaceous earth.

image_omkikt.png
 
Upvote 0 Downvote
run Atterberg limits. Replicate the LL on an oven-dried sample. Gauge if the LL was reduced by more than 25% (i.e., <75% of its original value). May be an OL or an OH? Data may be real.

These soils are highly prone to long term secondary compression - i.e., decades and decades!

f-d

ípapß gordo ainÆt no madre flaca!
 
Upvote 0 Downvote
Status
Not open for further replies.

Similar threads

P
  • Question
Undrained Soil with no Water table Total vs. Effective Stress
Replies
0
Views
731
PapaGreco
P
Yusei
  • Question
What does a negative Poisson's ratio of soil and rock mean?
Replies
5
Views
634
geotechguy1
geotechguy1
ONENGINEER
  • Question
Soil Densification
Replies
1
Views
1K
HTURKAK
HTURKAK
beagleboy
  • Question
Lateral soil pressure on box SOE
Replies
5
Views
1K
geotechguy1
geotechguy1
saos
  • Locked
  • Question
Soil properties
Replies
1
Views
241
EireChch
EireChch

Part and Inventory Search

Sponsor

Back
Top Bottom