water content of soil? (@) oven drying method (®) sand bath method (©) calcium carbide method (4) pycnometer method { 9-9 Consider the following methods: 1. Core cutter method 2. Sand replacement method 3. Proctor’s needle method 4. Field vane shear method Which of these methods enable control of field compaction? (@) 1,2,and3 ) 1.2, and4 © 1,3,and4 (@) 23ana4 A soil mass contains 40% gravel, 50% sand. and 10% silt. This soil can be classified as (a) silty sandy gravel having coefficient of uniformity less than 60. (b) silty gravelly sand having coefficient of uniformity equal to 10. (©) gravelly silty sand having coefficient of uniformity greater than 60. (d) gravelly silty sand and its coefficient of uniformity cannot be determined. we The description of ‘sandy silty clay’ signifies that (@) the soil contains unequal proportions of the three constituents, in the order sand > silt > clay (b) the soil contains equal proportions of sand, silt and clay (©) the soil contains unequal proportions of sand, silt and clay (4) the soil contains unequal proportions of the three constituents such that lay > silt > sand Score MADE EASY 40 | oP: 10 PSC 2019 Prelims Exam MADE EAS @ at a °f the following methods is most 95. Among the clay minerals, the one having ‘ate for the determination of the the maximum swelling tendency is (a) Kaolinite © Mite (€) Montmorillonite (d) Halloysite curve is non-linear Q.96 The zero-air owing to (a) the standard proctor test data of dry density and corresponding water content plotting as a non-linear curve (b) the dry density at 100% saturation being ‘a non-linear function of the void ratio (0) the water content altering during compaction (d)the soil being compacted with an odd number of belows Rr For better strength and stability, the fine grained soils and coarse grained soils are compacted respectively as: (@) Dry of OMC and wet of OMC (©) Wet of OMC and dry of OMC (©) Wet of OMC and wet of OMC (@) Dry of OMC and dry of OMC where OMC is optimum moisture content. #8 Approximate ratios of the permeabilities of two clean soils having Dy, = 0.6 mm and Dyy = 03 mm respectively is @ 40 ) 375 © 425 (a) 35 1m the situation shown in the given figure, the coefficient of permeability of the soil is 103cm/s. The discharge i minute will be mone Scanned by CamScanner