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Compaction lecture notes for civil engineering
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Compaction Curve
What happens to the relative quantities of the three phases
with addition of water?
Water content
Dry
density
(
d
)
soil
water
air
difficult to expel all air
lowest void ratio and
highest dry density at
optimum w
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Zero Air Void Curve
All compaction points should lie
to the left of ZAV curve
- corresponds to 100% saturation
Water content
Dry
density
(
d
)
Zero air void curve (S=100%)
s
w
s
d
wG
G
1
:
Eq
S<100%
S>100% (impossible)
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Compaction and Clay Fabric
Higher water content or higher
compactive effort gives more
dispersed fabric.
more dispersed fabric
more
dispersed
fabric
Water content
Dry
density
(
d
)
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Compaction Control
-a systematic exercise where you check
at regular intervals whether the
compaction was done to specifications.
e.g., 1 test per
1000 m3 of
compacted soil
• Minimum dry density
• Range of water content
Field measurements (of d) obtained using
• sand cone
• nuclear density meter
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Laboratory Compaction Test
- to obtain the compaction curve and define the
optimum water content and maximum dry density for a
specific compactive effort.
hammer
Standard Proctor: Modified Proctor:
• 3 layers
• 25 blows per layer
• 5 layers
• 25 blows per layer
• 2.7 kg hammer
• 300 mm drop
• 4.9 kg hammer
• 450 mm drop
1000 ml compaction mould
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Dynamic Compaction
- pounding the ground by a heavy weight
Suitable for granular soils, land fills
and karst terrain with sink holes.
Crater created by the impact
Pounder (Tamper)
solution cavities in
limestone
(to be backfilled)