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SAQUIN
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INSIGHT

In erecting any infrastructure it is essential to calculate the

degree of compaction of the soil may it be a house, commercial
building or freeways. This eases your structure to fail or crack due to
shrinkage of the soil from the lack of compaction.
The dry unit weight of the soil gives us the idea of its strength,
compressibility, and permeability. Water content of the soil may
appear in a liquid state where the soil offers no resistance to flow.
However in contrary its shear strength increases as its water content
drops which gives more resistance to flow.
To any types of soil like clay for example: if its water content is
too much its resistance to flow decreases that enables it to flow along
water current. If it reaches the desirable water content it reaches the
plastic state where this state the clay can be molded to any shapes of
forms you want it to be due to plasticity.
If the content of water drops gradually, it’ll be semi-solid which
contains a high shear strength and more resistance to flow that is
desirable in erecting an infrastructure that has heavy structural loads.