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An embankment is constructed with soil by maintaining the degree of saturation as $75 \%$ during compaction. The specific gravity of soil is 2.68 and the moisture content...
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From laboratory investigations, the liquid limit, plastic limit, natural moisture content and flow index of a soil specimen are obtained as $60\%, 27\%, 32\%$ and $27$, r...
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Let $G$ be the specific gravity of soil solids, $w$ the water content in the soil sample, $\gamma_w$ the unit weight of water, and $\gamma_d$ the dry unit weight of the s...
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Following statements are made on compacted soils, wherein DS stands for the soils compacted on dry side of optimum moisture content and WS stands for the soils compacted ...
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