Jadara University

Faculty Of Engineering

Civil Engineering Department

CE(702422 ) Soil laboratory

Experiment no.(3)

Name : Adham alnadi

ID : 201820350

Instructor : Ayat marashdeh / Ayat Malkawi

Objective :
To dermietne a particular soil grain size distribution

Data and calculation

Weight
Weight Weight Percent Cumulativ
Sieve Sieve retained Percent
of retaine weight e percent
no opening +weight finer
sieve d retained retained
of sieve

#4 4.75 520 623 103 20.641 20.641 79.359

#8 2.36 540 596 56 11.222 31.863 68.137
#16 1.18 439 549 110 22.004 53.867 46.124
#30 0.6 388 462 74 14.829 68.696 31.304
#50 0.3 401 443 42 8.416 77.112 22.888
#100 0.15 364 444 80 16.032 93.144 6.856
#200 0.075 358 383 25 5.010 98.154 1.846
PAN ------------- 336 345 9 1.803 99.957 0.043

W₁=

1. Weight retained= (Weight retained +weight of sieve)- Weight of sieve

2. Percent of soil retained on sieve (Counting from the top)

Rn =

3. Cumulative weight retained =⅀Rn

4. Percent finer=100-⅀Rn

5. Loss during sieve analysis =

Chart
Discussion :
From this experiment, there two materials that have been observed which are lactose and
microcrystalline cellulose .The method used was sieving method,where we able to
determine the particle size distribution. As a stack of sieves were prepared, the sieve that
has larger opening size are placed above the ones that having smaller opening sizes . This
means, the sieve that have diameter of aperture of 500 µm will be placed at the above
followed by 425 µm, 300 µm, 150 µm, and 45 µm.

Conclusions :
According to the experiment, sieving process is one of the method to determine the size
of particles. The distribution of particles size are able to be analysed after conducting
this experiment especially in achieving optimum production of efficacious medicines in
pharmaceutical phase.