Laboratory Work No.

TITLE: COMPACTION TEST

OBJECTIVE:

LIST OF EQUIPMENT AND APPARATUS:

1. compaction mold and hammer 7. Large mixing pan

2. moisture sprayer 8. Balance
3. no. 4 sieve 9. Drying oven
4. rubber-tipped pestle 10. Moisture cans
6.straight edge and knife

PROCEDURE:

1. Weigh the mold to 0.01 lb.

2. Obtain a 6 lb. Representative specimen of the soil sample to be tasted. Break

sample with the use of rubber pestle and pass through no. 4 sieve.

3. Form a 2 to 3 inch layer using the soil passing through no. 4 sieve.

4. Press soil until it is smooth and compact it with specific no. of evenly distributed
blows of the hammer, using a one-foot drop, rotate the hammer to insure a
uniform distribution blows.

5. Repeat the same procedure for second and third layers seeing to it that a
uniform one-foot drop is maintained.

6. After compaction of the top rim of the mold.

7. Remove the collar and trim off the soil from the top of the mold. Start trimming
along the center and work towards end of the mold.

8. After the soil has been mad even with the top of the mold and all the base soil
cleaned from the outside, weight the cylinder and sample to 0.01 lb.

9. Remove the soil from cylinder and obtain a representative sample of 100 grams
for a water content determination. The water content sample should be made
up with specimens from the top, middle and bottom of the compacted soil.

10. Break up by hand the soil removed from the cylinder and remix with original
sample and raise its water content by approximately 3% by adding water to
the sample with the sprayer. Mix the soil thoroughly and by weighing the
sprayer, before and after the spraying, the amount of water added is known.

11. Keep repeating procedure for 5 to 6 times until soil is sticky. Use 3% approximate
water content.
GENERAL DATA:

Trial No. 1 6 16 74 75

Wet density Determination

Weight of mold and wet soil 4400 g 4500 g 4510 g 4590 g 4750 g

Weight of mold 3000 g 3000 g 3000 g 3000 g 3000g

Weight of wet soil 1.4 kg 1.5 kg 1.51 kg 1.59 kg 1.75 kg

Wet density 1489361.702 1595744.681 1691489.362 1606382.979 1861702.128

Moisture determination

Weight of can + wet soil 87. 49 g 81.93 g 77.84 g 78.63 g 95.30 g

Weight of can + dry soil 76.38 g 70.08 g 66.26 g 65.77 g 73.56 g

Weight of can 29.88 g 29.83 g 30.30 g 28.56 g 28.78 g

Weight of dry soil 46.5 g 40.25 g 35.96 g 35.47 g 44.78 g

Weight of water 11.11 g 11.85 g 12.37 g 12.08 g 24.638 g

Water content 23.89 29.259 30.733 32.46 55.02

Dry density 11202164.58 1234532.745 1293850.337 1212730.62 1200943.186

COMPUTATIONS:

Wt WET SOIL = Wt wet soil + can – Wt can

Wt DRY SOIL = Wt DRY SOIL + CAN – Wt can

W=

δ= WT/ V

δd= δ/(1 + W)

DRAWING OF APPARATUS:
GENERAL DISCUSSIONS:

On structural earth fill projects, job specifications will indicate the soil density or
degree of compaction that must be achieved in order for the fill to be considered
satisfactory. The job specification requirements are typically based on the results of
laboratory compaction tests. (Actually, moisture density tests ) performs on
representative samples of soil to be use din the filling operation. The laboratory tests
determines the maximum density (or unit weight) for the soil, and the influence of
moisture content on obtaining that density.

The most widely used procedure for moisture – density testing consists of
compacting the soil layers in a cylindrical mode by using a drop hammer. For a particular
method, the mold will be specified, as will the weight and drop of the compacting
hammer. To establish the moisture-density relationship for a soil, separate samples are
each compacted at different water contents. Each sample is compacted in the same
manner (same volume, same number of layers, same compaction energy). The
compacted dry density and water content for each trial is then determined by weighing
and drying the soil.

A comparison of results obtained from all the samples will reveal that the dry
densities are different. This is caused by the variation in water content present during the
compaction process. It should not be expected however, that compaction will result in
a no void space condition for the soil primarily because of the irregular shapes and
various sizes of soil particles.

REMARKS AND CONCLUSION:

In this experiment we have determined the

 Y-Values

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1280000

1260000

1240000

1220000

1200000

1180000
10 Axis Title 100
 University of the Cordilleras
College of Engineering and Architecture
Department of Civil Engineering

COMPACTION TEST

In Partial Fulfillment for the Requirement for:

CE 322-15L – Soil Mechanics Lab
3rd Term, 2017-2018

Submitted by:

Bumal-o, Pearl Ellen

Cas-oy, Mark
Gapasen, Gielly Pearl
Orogo, Emmanuelle
Samson, Jolly Raye
Telino, Dynie Vic
Veloria, May Ann N.

Submitted to:
Engr. Notarte, Nelson D.
SE, CE, MSCE

July 6, 2018