EFFECT OF COMPACTION ENERGY ON ENGINEERING CHARACTERICTICS OF COMPACTED COHESIVE SOIL
In civil engineering work, soils play an important role. Bearing capacity of the soil should be able to withstand the ultimate design load from structure. There are several methods to improve the strength of the soil. Conventional method used for soil improvement is compaction. Compaction is t...
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| Format: | Final Year Project Report |
| Language: | English |
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Universiti Malaysia Sarawak, (UNIMAS)
2010
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| Online Access: | http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/46546/1/Cheong%20Wai%20Keong%20ft.pdf http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/46546/ |
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| Summary: | In civil engineering work, soils play an important role. Bearing capacity of the
soil should be able to withstand the ultimate design load from structure. There are
several methods to improve the strength of the soil. Conventional method used for
soil improvement is compaction. Compaction is time consuming and difficult to
acquire optimum moisture content (OMC) at field due to certain factors. In this
research, the relationship between the effect of compaction energy with respect to
maximum dry density (MDD) and optimum moisture content (OMC) is studied. The
effect of compaction energy is investigated by testing sample using different method
of compaction method (Standard Proctor and Modified Proctor) and tested with
series of numbers of blows. In this research, the types of soil limited for cohesive soil
which are silt or clay only. The observed experiment result shows that the increase of
maximum dry density (MDD) and decrease of optimum moisture content (OMC) of
the samples by providing high compaction energy. Therefore, the relationship of
maximum dry density (MDD) and optimum moisture content (OMC) of different
types of cohesive soil were determined. |
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