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Compaction - 09

An embankment for a highway is to be constructed from sandy soil trucked in from a borrow pit. The soil in the pit has a water content of 15% and voids ratio of 0.69. The embankment must be compacted to a dry unit weight of 18 kN/m3. For a 1 km length: a) The required dry unit weight of the borrow pit soil is 15.7 kN/m3. b) 5,160 truckloads of 10 m3 each are needed to construct the 45,000 m3 embankment. c) Each truckload will contain 23.6 kN of water weight. d) The in-situ

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An embankment for a highway is to be constructed from sandy soil trucked in from a borrow pit. The soil in the pit has a water content of 15% and voids ratio of 0.69. The embankment must be compacted to a dry unit weight of 18 kN/m3. For a 1 km length: a) The required dry unit weight of the borrow pit soil is 15.7 kN/m3. b) 5,160 truckloads of 10 m3 each are needed to construct the 45,000 m3 embankment. c) Each truckload will contain 23.6 kN of water weight. d) The in-situ

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Compaction - 09

An embankment for a highway 30 m wide and 1.5 m thick is to be constructed from a sandy soil,
trucked in from a borrow pit. The water content of the sandy soil in the borrow pit is 15% and its
voids ratio is 0.69. Specifications require the embankment to be compacted to a dry unit weight
of 18 kN/m3 . Determine, for 1 km length of embankment, the following:

a) The dry unit weight of sandy soil from the borrow pit required to construct the embankment,
assuming that GS = 2.7;
b) The number of 10 m3 truckloads of sandy soil required to construct the embankment;
c) The weight of water per truck load of sandy soil; and
d) The degree of saturation of the in-situ sandy soil.

SOLUTION:
G Sγ w 2.7(9.8) kN
a) The borrow pit ’s dry unit weight γ d = = = 15.7 3
1+ e 1 + 0.69 m

b) The volume of the finished embankment V = 30 m (1.5 m )(1km long ) = 45x103 m3

γ d ( reqd )
(V ) = 
18 
Volume of borrow pit soil required =  ( 45 x10 ) m
3 3

γ d ( borrow p i t )  15.7 

 1 8   4 5 x1 0 
3
No. of truck trips =    = 5160
 15.7   10 

 kN 
c) Weight of dry soil in 1 truckload w d = 1 0 m 3  17.5 3  = 157 k N
 m 

Weight of water w W d = (0.15)(157 k N ) = 23.6 k N per truck

wG 0.15 ( 2.7 )
d) Degree of saturation S = = = 0.59 = 59%
e 0.69

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