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The document provides instructions and a template for calculating gradation curves, impact value, flakiness index, and elongation index of aggregates. Students are asked to calculate these properties for different aggregate samples and sieves, show their work, and comment on the results.

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The document provides instructions and a template for calculating gradation curves, impact value, flakiness index, and elongation index of aggregates. Students are asked to calculate these properties for different aggregate samples and sieves, show their work, and comment on the results.

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Assignment 01

ENGR 106: Engineering Materials


Faculty of Engineering
NSBM Green University
IMPORTANT : Show all the calculations.

01. Calculate and plot the gradation curve.

Percent
Opening Sieve Weight Sieve + Soil Weight of Soil Cumulative Percent
Sieve No Retained
(mm) (g) Weight (g) Retained (g) percent retained finer (%)
(%)

4 4.75 521 521

8 2.36 491.8 504

16 1.18 426 450.5

30 0.6 401.8 490

50 0.297 375.5 478

100 0.149 355.3 410

200 0.075 351.1 368.2

Pan 364.2 365


02. Calculate and Comment.

Sample 1 Sample 2 Sample 3


No
1 Weight of empty measuring cylinder = W1 g 970.1 970.1 970.1

2 Weight of aggregate with measuring cylinder = W2 g 1407.7 1384.5 1398.6

3 Weight of empty 2.36 mm sieve pan = W4 g 328.6 328.6 328.6

4 Weight of aggregate retained in 2.36 mm sieve with sieve pan = W5 g 557.3 570.6 572.7

5 Weight of aggregate passed through 2.36 mm sieve = W3 g

6 Aggregate Imapct value (%)

7 Aggragtes Impact value


Size of Aggregates
Thickness Gauge Weight of Weight of the
Flakiness Index
slot used (0.6 x Aggregate of aggregate fraction
of each fraction
Passing through Retained on Sieve mean sieve size) this size group passing through the
of aggregate (%)
Sieve of size (mm) of size (mm) (mm) (g) slot (g)

50 40 900 110

40 25 810 200

25 20 390 95

20 16 250 38

16 12.5 110 16

12.5 10 85 8

W1 = W2 = FI(%) =
Size of Aggregates Length Gauge Weight of Weight of the
Elongation Index of
slot used (1.8 x Aggregate of aggregate fraction
Passing through Retained on each fraction of
mean sieve this size passing through the
Sieve of size Sieve of size aggregate (%)
size) (mm) group (g) slot (g)
(mm) (mm)

50 40 790 100

40 25 610 30

25 20 295 40

20 16 212 55

16 12.5 94 45

12.5 10 77 32

W1 = W2 = EI(%) =

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