OBJECTIVE

To determine the water content of a given soil sample, rock and similar materials where the reduction on mass by drying is due to loss of water. This value is calculated by obtaining the ratio of the weight of water in a given soil mass to the weight of soil particles and is usually expressed in percent(%). Source of error include: period drying of the sol ,the sample size and weighing errors.

INTRODUCTION
In general, soil is tested in order to assess its variability and in order to obtain parameters for particular geotechnical calculations. These two distinct reasons for testing lead to very different testing programmes. Routine tests carried out to allow the soil on a site to be divided into groups should ideally be scheduled for an initial phase of testing. Subsequent more expensive and complex tests are normally carried out on soil which is thought to be representative of each group; the samples to be tested cannot be so well selected before the results of classification tests are known. For reasons of time and economy, this ideal scheme cannot normally be used. More complex tests require a longer test period. When testing is started at about the same time as samples start to arrive from site, the engineer initially may have to rely completely on soil descriptions for a division of the in situ soil. Soil classification is carried out in order to define a small number of different groups of soil on any site. Each soil group may consist of a stratigraphically defined geological unit. More often it may ignore geological boundaries because the essence of the soil group should be that materials within it have (or are expected to have) similar geotechnical properties. Particle size, plasticity and organic content may be more important to the geotechnical engineer than time of deposition. The three main tools used to classify soil are soil description, particle size distribution analysis and plasticity testing.

EQUIPMENTS

NO 1

NAME SOIL

PICTURE

SAMPLING TUBE

KNIFE

RULER

BUCKET

TEMPERATURE CONTROL OVEN

3 MOISTURE CONTENT CAN

ELECTRONIC SCALE

HYDRAULIC EXTRUDER

PROCEDURE
1. 2. 3. 4.
soil sample taken and entered in a bucket put a little water to moisten the soil take the sampling tube and insert into the ground up and fully compressible. when full, close the sampling tube so that soil samples taken are not contaminated with air. 5. take the sampling tube and place it in a tool hydraulic extruder 6. sets of these tools and apply pressure to the ground just out 7. out of the land shall be measured by 5cm 8. take a knife and cut the land and enter into Moisture content 9. take up to 3 pieces 10 take three samples above and enter into the oven temperature control 11 let stand for 24 hours. 12 is completed, remove the sample and weighing just 13 take the reading and enter data into

DATA ANALYSIS
A. Determination of bulk density No of test Length of soil(m) Diameter (m) Volume , V (V= )(M) Mass of bulk soil, W(W=T2-T2)(kg) Bulk density ( 1 5cm 3.7cm 2 5cm 3.7cm 3 5cm 3.7cm

No. of test Mass of can, T1 (g) Mass of can + moist soil, T2 (g) Mass of can + dry soil, T3 (g) Mass of dry soil, ms (g) Mass of water, mw (g) Moisture content, m (%)

1 0.009 0.113 0.092 0.083 0.021 25.3%

2 0.009 0.117 0.095 0.086 0.031 36%

2 0.009 0.113 0.092 0.083 0.021 25.3%

CONCLUSION
1) What were possible sources of error? lack of moisture in the soil make it difficult for us to produce samples of soil in
the sampling tube.

we did not obtain the form of a cylinder which at first we took samples of
soil is too soft.

2) What are the differences between disturb soil and undisturbed soil (in table)

Disturbed soil
disturbed land is land taken regardless of the actual conditions at the site. land is used for the purpose of land classification and density soil. stored in an airtight container to avoid condensation and discolouration.

Undisturbed soil
an undisturbed soil sample taken with the minimum disturbance to maintain the actual conditions of the site. it should be stored in an airtight container and special attention. These soil samples are usually used for shear tests, permeability tests and consolidation tests.

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