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SOIL COMPOSITION Mass of dish coated with petroleum jelly = 11.30 g

Situation 1 (MEGAREVIEW): In a specific gravity test, the following Mass of dish coated with petroleum jelly + wet soil = 38.51 g
are recorded: Mass of dish coated with petroleum jelly + oven-dried soil = 32.80 g
Mass of pycnometer jar = 40 grams Volume of Shrinkage dish = 15.25 cc
Mass of pycnometer jar when full of water = 674 grams Mass of Volume of oven-dried soil pat = 12.85 cc
pycnometer jar containing soil = 485 grams Mass of pycnometer jar
containing soil and topped with water = 946 grams a. Determine the shrinkage limit of soil. Ans. 0.1540
b. Determine the shrinkage ratio. Ans. 1.67
a. Compute the specific gravity of solid. Ans. 2.57 c. Determine the specific gravity of soil solids. Ans. 2.25
b. Find the void ratio of the soil if the dry unit weight is 1.55
grams per cm3. Ans. 0.66 SOIL COMPACTION
Situation 7 (MEGAREVIEW): A road embankment needs 130
Situation 2 (SIR NEIL NOTES): The moist unit weight of 0.00283 m³ 000cu.m. to be completed. DPWH requires 96% compaction and the
is 54.4 N. If the moisture content is 12% and the specific gravity of contractor is to provide soil from a borrow site. If the optimum
soil is 2.72. Determine the following: moisture content is 17% and the maximum dry density is
19.20kN/m3.
a. Moist Unit Weight. Ans. 19.22 kN/m³ a. Determine the weight of dry soil in the embankment. Ans.
b. Dry Unit Weight. Ans. 17.16 kN/m³ 2,400,000
c. Void Ratio. Ans. 0.555 b. How much borrowed soil is required per cubic meter if the
d. Porosity. Ans. 0.357 moisture content of the borrowed material is 14% and the
e. Degree of Saturation. Ans. 59.35% moist unit weight of the borrow is 17kN/m3. Ans. 160,684
f. Determine the air content. Ans. 0.4065 c. How many truckloads of borrow material are needed if the
g. Volume occupied by water. Ans. 0.0005844 m³ soil would have a specific gravity 2.6 and void ratio of 0.70
and the capacity of each truck is 9cubic meter. Ans. 17,746
Situation 3 (SIR NEIL NOTES): In a wet soil mass air occupies one- d. How many cu.m of water are needed? Ans. 7327.71
sixth of its volume and water occupies one-third of its volume.
Determine the void ratio of the soil. Ans. 1.0 PERMEABILITY
Situation 8 (Besavilla): The figure shows a cross section through
Situation 4 (Besavilla): A soil at a constant moisture content shows the strata underlying a site the permeability properties of which are of
the following when occupied importance. Assume the coefficient of permeability in the horizontal
and vertical directions to be the same in each stratum. (each layer is
Degree of Saturation Dry Unit Weight hydraulically isotropic)
40% 14.50 kN/m³ a. Compute the equivalent permeability coefficient of vertical
70% 17.89 kN/m³ flow. Ans. 1.51 x 𝟏𝟎−𝟖 m/s
b. Compute the headloss at C if the flow is 0.00213 m³/s.
a. Determine the specific gravity of soil. Ans. 2.64 Ans. 0.799 m
b. Determine the moisture content of soil. Ans. 11.86% c. Compute the equivalent permeability coefficient for
c. Determine the void ratio of the 17.89 kN/m³ of soil. Ans. horizontal flow. Ans. 7.26 x 𝟏𝟎−𝟒 m/s
0.447
EFFECTIVE STRESSES IN SOIL
ATTERBERG LIMITS Situation 9 (MEGAREVIEW): A dense silt layer has the following
Situation 5 (Besavilla): A soil has a liquid limit of 61 and a plastic properties: void ratio = 0.40, effective diameter d10 = 10 μm, capillary
limit of 30. A moisture content test performed on an undisturbed constant C = 0.20cm². Free ground water level is 8.0 m below the
sample of this soil yielded the following results: ground surface. Assumed unit weight of solids = 26.487 kN/m³. If the
capillary zone is at 80% saturation.
Mass of soil + can before placing in oven……… 96.2 g a. What is the effective stress 3m below the ground (just
Mass of soil + can after removal from oven……..71.9 g below the capillary rise)? Ans. 96 kPa
Mass of can…………………………………………20.8 g b. What is the effective stress 2m below the ground? Ans
37.80 kPa
a. Compute the plasticity index. Ans. 31 c. The maximum specific energy in a rectangular channel is 9
b. Compute the moisture content. Ans. 47.6% feet. The critical velocity, in ft/sec, is most nearly: Ans.
c. Compute the liquidity index. Ans. 0.568 186.40 kPa
FLOW NETS
Situation 6 (SIR NEIL NOTES): During an experiment for shrinkage Situation 10 (SIR NEIL): The flow net for the flow around a single
limit determination of a clay, the following laboratory data were row of sheets piles in a permeable soil layer is shown in the figure.
obtained. Given that C=1.0 and 𝐷10 =0.015.
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a. Determine the coefficient of permeability. Ans. 2.25 x

SLOPE STABIITY
𝟏𝟎−𝟒 cm/s
Situation 13 (Sir Neil): An infinite slope has the follow
b. Determine the head at point A measured from the ground
properties: Gs= 2.70, e= 0.54, c =25 kPa, Ø= 30 degree, ß== 20
surface. Ans. 11 m
degree, and H= 7m.
c. Determine the head at point B. Ans. 5 m
a. Determine the saturated unit weight of the soil. Ans.
d. Determine the head at point C. Ans. 6 m
20.64 kN/m³
b. Determine the factor of safety against sliding. Consider
seepage through the soil and assume that the ground
water table is at the ground surface. Ans. 1.37
c. Determine the factor of safety against sliding if there is
no seepage. Ans. 2.23

MOHR
Situation 11 (Besavilla): A soil element is shown in the figure.
Determine the following: theta: 35 degree

a. Major principal stress. Ans. 144.7 kPa

b. Minor principal stress. Ans. 55.3 kPa
c. Normal stress on plane AB. Ans. 69.27 kPa
d. Shear stress on plane AB. Ans. 32.46 kPa

CONSOLIDATED DRAINED TEST

Situation 12 (Sir Neil): The data shown in the table where
obtained in a consolidated-drained test of three identical soil
specimens.
Test No. Minor Principal Stress Major Principal Stress
1 50 kPa 230 kPa
2 100 kPa 385 kPa
3 150 kPa 540 kPa

a. Compute the angle of internal friction. Ans. 30.81

degree
b. Compute the cohesion of the soil. Ans. 21.3 kPa
c. Compute the shearing stress at a depth of 6m below
the ground if a phreatic line is located 2m below the
ground surface and the soil has a dry unit weight of 16
kN/m³ and a saturated unit weight of 20 kN/m³. Ans.
64.7 kPa