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HW 5 Soil Compaction Spreadsheet PDF
HW 5 Soil Compaction Spreadsheet PDF
Create a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet to analyze modified proctor test data and sand cone test data.
Model your spreadsheet after the spreadsheet posted on the class web site for the lecture example.
After you finish your spreadsheet, enter the HW #4 data into it, save it, and upload it as
lastname_firstname.xlsm to SkyDrive (see SkyDrive directions in class Dropbox foldr).
Your spreadsheet should:
Indicate input cells (e.g. with a yellow background)
Describe each parameter
Show units for all numbers when appropriate
Use greek letters and subscripts for variable names
Show all formulas
Include a plot of dry density vs moisture content for the proctor test results. Plot the data as points (no
lines) and fit a polynomial to the data (a3 x3 + a2 x2 + a1 x + a0 ).
Set up your spreadsheet to calculate the optimum moisture content and the maximum dry density
“automatically”. Example calculations are shown below.
a3 a2 a1 a0
coefficients from LINEST function: 43857 -27287 4827.3 -145.245325
=LINEST( d , ^{1,2,3} )
d d / d = 3 * a2 * 2 + 2 * a2 * + a1 = 0
a b c