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SOIL WATER (MOISTURE) CONTENT TEST DATA SHEET 1
Project --------------------------------------------------------------- Group No.----------------------------------
Location of Project ------------------------------------------------ Boring No. --------- Sample No. --------
Description of Soil ------------------------------------------------ Depth of Sample ---------------------------
Depth of Sample ------------ Tested By -------------------------- Date of Testing ----------------------------
----------------------------------- Specimen size
Water Content Determination
.Can (Tin) No
gm
Empty Wt. of dry can (tin) +lid(if
used)
gm
Wt. of can(tin) + wet soil
gm
Wt. of can(tin) + dry soil
gm
Wt. of water
gm
Wt. of dry soil
%
%Water content, ω
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ATTERBERG LIMITS DETERMINATION DATA SHEET 2
Project --------------------------------------------------------------- Group No.----------------------------------
Location of Project ------------------------------------------------ Boring No. --------- Sample No. --------
Description of Soil ------------------------------------------------ Depth of Sample ---------------------------
Depth of Sample ------------ Tested By -------------------------- Date of Testing ----------------------------
Liquid Limit Determination
.Can No
Wt. of wet soil + can
Wt. of dry soil + can
Wt. of can
Wt. of dry soil
Wt. of moisture
%Water content, ω
No. of blows N
Penetration D
Flow index Fi =
Liquid limit =
Plastic limit =
Plasticity index Ip =
Plastic Limit Determination
.Can No
Wt. of wet soil + can
Wt. of dry soil + can
Wt. of can
Wt. of dry soil
Wt. of moisture
Water content, ω % = ω p
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ATTERBERG LIMITS DETERMINATION (FALL CONE) DATA SHEET 3
Location Job ref.
Borehole/
Soil description
Pit no. I
SAMPLE NO.
DEPTH
TEST METHOD BS 1377 : Part 2 : 1990 : 4.3/4.4* Date
Test no. 1 2 3 4
initial dial gauge reading, mm
Final dial gauge reading, mm
Average penetration, mm
Container no.
Mass of wet soil + container, g
Mass of dry soil + container, g
Mass of container, g
Mass of moisture
Mass of dry soil, g
Moisture content(ω) %
Liquid Limit:
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GRAIN SIZE ANALYSIS MECHANICAL DATA SHEET 2
Project --------------------------------------------------------------- Group No.----------------------------------
Location of Project ------------------------------------------------ Boring No. --------- Sample No. --------
Description of Soil ------------------------------------------------ Depth of Sample ---------------------------
Tested By ----------------------------------------------------------- Date of Testing -----------------------------
Soil Sample Size (ASTM D1140-54)
Nominal diameter of Approximate minimum
Largest practical Wt. of sample. g
No. 10 Sieve 200
No. 4 Sieve 500
3/4 in 1500
Wt. of dry sample + container
Wt. of container
Wt. of dry sample, Ws.
Sieve analysis and grain data sheet
.Sieve No Diam. (mm) Wt. retained retained % passing %
% passing=100−∑ % retained .
Draw a figure of typical mechanical analysis soil data.
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GRAIN SIZE ANALYSIS HYDROMETER METHOD DATA SHEET 5
Project --------------------------------------------------------------- Group No.---------------------------------
Location of Project ------------------------------------------------ Boring No. --------- Sample No. --------
Description of Soil ------------------------------------------------ Depth of Sample -------------------------
Depth of Sample ------------- Tested By -------------------------- Date of Testing
---------------------------
Hydrometer analysis
Hydrometer no.--------------- Gs of soilds----------------- a = -----------------despising agent--[NaPO3]
Amount ----[4% in 125 ml]--------- Wt. of soil, Ws ---------------------
Zero correction-------------------------- meniscus correction--------------------
Date time of elapsed temp. actual Corr. % Hyd. L L K D,
o
reading time C hyd. hyd. finer corr. from t from mm
min. reading reading for table table
Ra Rc Meniscus. 5 4
R
Rc =R a−zero correction+C T … … .(3), %finer=Rc ( a ) /W s , D=K √ L/t
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SPCIFIC GRAVITY OF SOIL SOLIDS TEST DATA SHEET 6
Project --------------------------------------------------------------- Group No.----------------------------------
Location of Project ------------------------------------------------ Boring No. --------- Sample No. --------
Description of Soil ------------------------------------------------ Depth of Sample ---------------------------
Depth of Sample ------------ Tested By -------------------------- Date of Testing ----------------------------
.Test No 1 2
Vol. of flask at 20o C
Method of air removal
Wt. flask +water +soil=Wbu’8
Temperature, oC
Wt. flask +waterb=Wbu
’
.Evap. Dish no
Wt. evap.dish
Wt. of dry soil=W8
Wu’=W8+Wbu’-Wbu’8
G8=𝛂Ws/Wu’(0.99756)
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COMPACTION STANDARD OR MODIFIED TEST DATA SHEET 7
Project --------------------------------------------------------------- Group No.----------------------------------
Location of Project ------------------------------------------------ Boring No. --------- Sample No. --------
Description of Soil ------------------------------------------------ Depth of Sample ---------------------------
Depth of Sample ------------ Tested By -------------------------- Date of Testing ----------------------------
Optimum Moisture Content Determination
No. of trial Type of test: standard proctor Volume= cc
1 Wt. of mold without collar gm
Wt. of wet soil + mold gm % =ωadd
.Can. No Wwet Wdry Wempty %ω %Ave ω
)top(1
)middle(2
)bottom(3
2 Wt. of mold without collar gm
Wt. of wet soil + mold gm % =ωadd
.Can. No Wwet Wdry Wempty %ω %Ave ω
)top(1
)middle(2
)bottom(3
3 Wt. of mold without collar gm
Wt. of wet soil + mold gm % =ωadd
.Can. No Wwet Wdry Wempty %ω %Ave ω
)top(1
)middle(2
)bottom(3
4 Wt. of mold without collar gm
Wt. of wet soil + mold gm % =ωadd
.Can. No Wwet Wdry Wempty %ω %Ave ω
)top(1
)middle(2
)bottom(3
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FIELD DENSITY BY SAND REPLACEMENT METHOD TEST DATA SHEET 8
Project --------------------------------------------------------------- Group No.----------------------------------
Location of Project ------------------------------------------------ Boring No. --------- Sample No. --------
Description of Soil ------------------------------------------------ Depth of Sample ---------------------------
Depth of Sample ------------ Tested By -------------------------- Date of Testing ----------------------------
Calibration of Equipment
Wt. of calibration jar W1 gm
Vol. of calibration jar V1 cm3
Wt. of jar + sand W2 gm
Wt. of sand to fill the jar (W3 = W2 - W1) W3 gm
Wt. of sand to fill can of the apparatus W4 gm
Bulk density of sand bγ gm/cm3
Water Content Determination
.Can No
Empty Wt. of can gm
Wt. of can + wet soil gm
Wt. of can + dry soil gm
Wt. of water gm
Wt. of dry soil gm
%Water content, ω
Calibration of Equipment
Empty Wt. of apparatus W5 gm
Wt. of apparatus + sand W6 gm
,Wt. of apparatus + sand W7 gm
After running down sand
Wt. of sand used in field W8 gm
)W8 = W6 - W7(
Wt. of sand used to fill the excavation hole W9 gm
(W9 = W8 - W4)
Wt. of excavation soil W10 gm
Volume of excavation soil V2 cm3
Field of density of soil γrfield gm/cm3
Water content of soil ω%
Dry density of soil dry γ gm/cm3
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FIELD DENSITY BY CORE METHOD TEST DATA SHEET 9
Project --------------------------------------------------------------- Group No.----------------------------------
Location of Project ------------------------------------------------ Boring No. --------- Sample No. --------
Description of Soil ------------------------------------------------ Depth of Sample ---------------------------
Depth of Sample ------------ Tested By -------------------------- Date of Testing ----------------------------
Calibration of Equipment
Wt. of core metal W1 gm
Vol. of core mould V1 cm3
Wt. of core+ wet soil W2 gm
Real soil height inside core W4 cm
Bulk density of soil bγ gm/cm3
Water Content Determination
.Can No
Empty Wt. of can gm
Wt. of can + wet soil gm
Wt. of can + dry soil gm
Wt. of water gm
Wt. of dry soil gm
%Water content, ω
Field density and compaction ratio determination
Wet density of soil wet γ
gm/cm3
Dry density of soil dry γ
gm/cm3
Maximum dry density of soil dry max γ
gm/cm3
Compaction ratio C.R %
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COEFFICENT OF PERMEABLEITY (CONSTANT HEAD) DATA SHEET 10
Project --------------------------------------------------------------- Group No.----------------------------------
Location of Project ------------------------------------------------ Boring No. --------- Sample No. --------
Description of Soil ------------------------------------------------ Depth of Sample ---------------------------
Depth of Sample ------------ Tested By -------------------------- Date of Testing ----------------------------
:Sample Dimensions Ht. cm
Diam. cm Area cm2
Vol. cm3 Unit Wt. kN/m3
Initial Wt. pan + soil gm
final Wt. pan + soil gm
Wt. of sample gm
h=( )cm
Test Data Test data Used
.Test No t, S Q, cm3 T, oC .Test No t, S Q, cm3 T, oC
1
2
3
4
Average
= KT = QL/Aht
cm/S =
= ηT / η20
= K20 = KT ηT / η20 cm/S
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TRAXIAL COMPRESSION TEST DATA SHEET 11
Project --------------------------------------------------------------- Group No.----------------------------------
Location of Project ------------------------------------------------ Boring No. --------- Sample No. --------
Description of Soil ------------------------------------------------ Depth of Sample ---------------------------
Depth of Sample ------------ Tested By -------------------------- Date of Testing ----------------------------
Sample data: Area, A0 cm2 Length, L0 cm
Machine data: Load rate mm/min σ 3= kPa
Deform. dial Area Correction
load dial ∆L in. Unit strain Normalized
reading correction area A' deviator
reading (col. 2 × ) ∆L/L0
( × ) factor 1-ϵ )cm2( stress, kPa
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
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CONSOLIDATION TEST DATA SHEET 12
Project --------------------------------------------------------------- Group No.----------------------------------
Location of Project ------------------------------------------------ Boring No. --------- Sample No. --------
Description of Soil ------------------------------------------------ Depth of Sample ---------------------------
Depth of Sample ------------ Tested By -------------------------- Date of Testing ----------------------------
Consolidatio Ring No. Multiplication of
n type load device
Ring Dimensions: Diam. cm Ht. cm Area cm2
ـــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــ = Initial Ht. of soil, Hi
ـــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــ = Special gravity of soil, Gx
ـــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــ = Wt. of ring + specimen at beginning of test
ـــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــ = Wt. of ring
ــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــ = Wt. of wet soil, Wt
= Computed dry weight of soil,W 's
ـــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــ
= Oven dry Wt. of soil,' ' W s
ــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــ
ــــــ
= Computed Ht. of solids,' ' H s
ــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــ
ـ
= Initial Ht. of voids, Hr = Hi − Hs
ـــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــ
= )Initial degree of saturation, Si = (Wi −Ws)/(HvA
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= Initial void of ratio ei = Hr/Hs
ـــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــ
Water content determination
Wt. of con + wet soil gm Wt. of water gm
Wt. of con + dry soil gm Wt. of dry soil gm
Wt. of con gm Initial water content, ωi%
Final test data (obtained at end of load test)
Initial dial reading Final Ht. of voids, Hvf cm
Final dial reading mm Final void of ratio ef = Hvf /Hs
.Change in sample Ht cm
Final water content determination
Final wet Wt. + ring gm %final water content, ωf
Final dry Wt. + ring gm %Final degree of sat, S
Oven dry Wt. of soil, Ws gm
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CONSOLIDATION TEST (TIME-COMPRESSION DATA) DATA SHEET 13
Project --------------------------------------------------------------- Group No.----------------------------------
Location of Project ------------------------------------------------ Boring No. --------- Sample No. --------
Description of Soil ------------------------------------------------ Depth of Sample ---------------------------
Depth of Sample ------------ Tested By -------------------------- Date of Testing ----------------------------
Loading Test Data:
Load ــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــkPa Load ــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــ
kPa
Date applied ـــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــ Date applied ـــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــ
Applied by ـــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــ Applied by ـــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــ
Dial readings × Dial readings ×
Clock time Elapsed ـــــــــــــــــــــــــــ Clock time Elapsed ـــــــــــــــــــــــــــــ
and date time, min and date time, min
Original Adjusted Original Adjusted
0 0
0.1 0.1
0.25 0.25
0.5 0.5
1 1
2 2
4 4
8 8
15 15
30 30
60 60
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DIRECT SHEAR TEST, COHESIONLESS SOIL DATA SHEET 14
Project --------------------------------------------------------------- Group No.----------------------------------
Location of Project ------------------------------------------------ Boring No. --------- Sample No. --------
Description of Soil ------------------------------------------------ Depth of Sample ---------------------------
Depth of Sample ------------ Tested By -------------------------- Date of Testing ----------------------------
Soil State (wet, dry) Soil Sample (distributed, undistributed)
Data to Obtain Sample Density if not an Undistributed Sample
Initial Wt. container + soil gm
final Wt. container + soil gm
Wt. of soil used gm
Water Content Data
Wt. dry soil + cup gm
Wt. wet soil + cup gm
Wt. of cup gm
Wt. of water gm
Wt. of dry soil gm
Water content, ω%
Shear Specimen Data
:Sample Dimensions
Side cm Area cm2
Ht. cm Vol.
:Density
γwet kN/m3 γdry kN/m3
Normal load kg
Loading rate mm/min
Normal stress, σ n kPa
Loading ring constant kg/div
(1-2)
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COHESIVE SOIL, COHESIONLESS SOIL DATA SHEET 15
Vert. Vert. Horz.
Vert. dial Horz. dial Load ring Shear
.displace .displace Corr. area shear
reading reading '
dial stress
.V∆ .H∆ A force N
(x0.0/mm) (x0.0/mm) reading r ( kPa)
) ( ) ( ) (
(2-2)
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CALIFORNIEA BEARING TEST DATA SHEET 16
:Project .Job No
:Location of project .Boring No .Sample No
:Description of soil :WL
:Wp
:Tested by :Date of testing
:Compaction energy: rammer :No. of layers :Blows/layer
at compaction: %ω :.Mold Diam :Ht. of soil :.Vol
:Wt. wet soil :Wt.dry soil wet :g dry :g
penetration Piston load load (kPa) penetration Piston load load (kPa)
mm dial reading mm dial reading
0 5.0
0.5 6.0
1.0 7.5
1.5 9.0
2.0 10.0
2.5 12.5
3.0
4.0
final water
Top
content ,ω
%(soaked , Middle
unsoaked
Bottom
sample)
