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SOIL WATER (MOISTURE) CONTENT TEST DATA SHEET 1

Project --------------------------------------------------------------- Group No.----------------------------------

Location of Project ------------------------------------------------ Boring No. --------- Sample No. --------
Description of Soil ------------------------------------------------ Depth of Sample ---------------------------
Depth of Sample ------------ Tested By -------------------------- Date of Testing ----------------------------
Specimen size -----------------------------------

Water Content Determination

Can (Tin) No.

gm
Empty Wt. of dry can (tin) +lid(if
used)
gm
Wt. of can(tin) + wet soil

gm
Wt. of can(tin) + dry soil

gm
Wt. of water

gm
Wt. of dry soil

%
Water content, ω%
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ATTERBERG LIMITS DETERMINATION DATA SHEET 2

Project --------------------------------------------------------------- Group No.----------------------------------

Location of Project ------------------------------------------------ Boring No. --------- Sample No. --------

Description of Soil ------------------------------------------------ Depth of Sample ---------------------------

Depth of Sample ----- ------- Tested By -------------------------- Date of Testing ----------------------------

Liquid Limit Determination

Can No.
Wt. of wet soil + can
Wt. of dry soil + can
Wt. of can
Wt. of dry soil
Wt. of moisture
Water content, ω%
No. of blows N
Penetration D

Flow index F i =
Liquid limit =
Plastic limit =
Plasticity index I p =

Plastic Limit Determination

Can No.
Wt. of wet soil + can
Wt. of dry soil + can
Wt. of can
Wt. of dry soil
Wt. of moisture
Water content, ω % = ω p
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ATTERBERG LIMITS DETERMINATION (FALL CONE) DATA SHEET 3

Location Job ref.

Borehole/
Soil description
Pit no. I
SAMPLE NO.
DEPTH

TEST METHOD BS 1377 : Part 2 : 1990 : 4.3/4.4* Date

Test no. 1 2 3 4
initial dial gauge reading, mm
Final dial gauge reading, mm
Average penetration, mm
Container no.
Mass of wet soil + container, g
Mass of dry soil + container, g
Mass of container, g
Mass of moisture
Mass of dry soil, g
Moisture content(ω) %

Liquid Limit:
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GRAIN SIZE ANALYSIS MECHANICAL DATA SHEET 2

Project --------------------------------------------------------------- Group No.----------------------------------

Location of Project ------------------------------------------------ Boring No. --------- Sample No. --------

Description of Soil ------------------------------------------------ Depth of Sample ---------------------------

Tested By ----------------------------------------------------------- Date of Testing -----------------------------

Soil Sample Size (ASTM D1140-54)

Nominal diameter of Approximate minimum
Largest practical Wt. of sample. g
No. 10 Sieve 200
No. 4 Sieve 500
3/4 in 1500
Wt. of dry sample + container
Wt. of container
Wt. of dry sample, Ws.

Sieve analysis and grain data sheet

Sieve No. Diam. (mm) Wt. retained % retained % passing

• % 𝑝𝑎𝑠𝑠𝑖𝑛𝑔 = 100 − ∑ % 𝑟𝑒𝑡𝑎𝑖𝑛𝑒𝑑.

• Draw a figure of typical mechanical analysis soil data.
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GRAIN SIZE ANALYSIS HYDROMETER METHOD DATA SHEET 5

• Project --------------------------------------------------------------- Group No.---------------------------------

• Location of Project ------------------------------------------------ Boring No. --------- Sample No. --------

• Description of Soil ------------------------------------------------ Depth of Sample -------------------------

• Depth of Sample ------------- Tested By -------------------------- Date of Testing --------------------------

• Hydrometer analysis

• Hydrometer no.--------------- Gs of soilds----------------- a = -----------------despising agent--[NaPO 3 ]

• Amount ----[4% in 125 ml]--------- Wt. of soil, Ws ---------------------

• Zero correction-------------------------- meniscus correction--------------------

Date time of elapsed temp. actual Corr. % Hyd. L 𝐿 K D,

o
reading time C hyd. hyd. finer corr. from 𝑡 from mm
min. reading reading for table table
Ra Rc Meniscus. 5 4
R

𝑅𝑐 = 𝑅𝑎 − 𝑧𝑒𝑟𝑜 𝑐𝑜𝑟𝑟𝑒𝑐𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛 + 𝐶𝑇 … … . (3), %𝑓𝑖𝑛𝑒𝑟 = 𝑅𝑐 (𝑎)/𝑊𝑠 , 𝐷 = 𝐾�𝐿/𝑡

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SPCIFIC GRAVITY OF SOIL SOLIDS TEST DATA SHEET 6

Project --------------------------------------------------------------- Group No.----------------------------------

Location of Project ------------------------------------------------ Boring No. --------- Sample No. --------

Description of Soil ------------------------------------------------ Depth of Sample ---------------------------

Depth of Sample ------------ Tested By -------------------------- Date of Testing ----------------------------

Test No. 1 2

Vol. of flask at 20o C

Method of air removal

Wt. flask +water +soil=W bu’8

Temperature, oC

Wt. flask +waterb=W bu’

Evap. Dish no.

Wt. evap.dish

W t. of dry soil=W 8

W u’ =W 8 +W bu’ -W bu’8

G 8 =𝛂𝛂W s /W u’ (0.99756)
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COMPACTION STANDARD OR MODIFIED TEST
Project ---------------------------------------------------------------
Location of Project ------------------------------------------------
Description of Soil ------------------------------------------------
Depth of Sample ------------ Tested By --------------------------
DATA SHEET 7
Group No.----------------------------------
Boring No. --------- Sample No. --------
Depth of Sample ---------------------------
Date of Testing ----------------------------

Optimum Moisture Content Determination

No. of trial Type of test: standard proctor Volume= cc
1 Wt. of mold without collar gm
Wt. of wet soil + mold gm ω add = %
Can. No. W wet W dry W empty ω% Ave ω%
1(top)
2(middle)
3(bottom)
2 Wt. of mold without collar gm
Wt. of wet soil + mold gm ω add = %
Can. No. W wet W dry W empty ω% Ave ω%

1(top)
2(middle)
3(bottom)
3 Wt. of mold without collar gm
Wt. of wet soil + mold gm ω add = %

Can. No. W wet W dry W empty ω% Ave ω%

1(top)
2(middle)
3(bottom)
4 Wt. of mold without collar gm
Wt. of wet soil + mold gm ω add = %
Can. No. W wet W dry W empty ω% Ave ω%
1(top)
2(middle)
3(bottom)
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FIELD DENSITY BY SAND REPLACEMENT METHOD TEST DATA SHEET 8

Project --------------------------------------------------------------- Group No.----------------------------------

Location of Project ------------------------------------------------ Boring No. --------- Sample No. --------
Description of Soil ------------------------------------------------ Depth of Sample ---------------------------
Depth of Sample ------------ Tested By -------------------------- Date of Testing ----------------------------

Calibration of Equipment
Wt. of calibration jar W1 gm
Vol. of calibration jar V1 cm3
Wt. of jar + sand W2 gm
Wt. of sand to fill the jar (W3 = W2 - W1) W3 gm
Wt. of sand to fill can of the apparatus W4 gm
Bulk density of sand γb gm/cm3

Water Content Determination

Can No.
Empty Wt. of can gm
Wt. of can + wet soil gm
Wt. of can + dry soil gm
Wt. of water gm
Wt. of dry soil gm
Water content, ω%
Calibration of Equipment
Empty Wt. of apparatus W5 gm
Wt. of apparatus + sand W6 gm
Wt. of apparatus + sand, W7 gm
After running down sand
Wt. of sand used in field W8 gm
(W 8 = W 6 - W7 )
Wt. of sand used to fill the excavation hole W9 gm
(W 9 = W 8 - W 4 )
Wt. of excavation soil W 10 gm
Volume of excavation soil V2 cm3
Field of density of soil γ rfield gm/cm3
Water content of soil ω%
Dry density of soil γ dry gm/cm3
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FIELD DENSITY BY CORE METHOD TEST DATA SHEET 9

Project --------------------------------------------------------------- Group No.----------------------------------

Location of Project ------------------------------------------------ Boring No. --------- Sample No. --------
Description of Soil ------------------------------------------------ Depth of Sample ---------------------------
Depth of Sample ------------ Tested By -------------------------- Date of Testing ----------------------------

Calibration of Equipment
Wt. of core metal W1 gm
Vol. of core mould V1 cm3
Wt. of core+ wet soil W2 gm
Real soil height inside core W4 cm
Bulk density of soil γb gm/cm3

Water Content Determination

Can No.
Empty Wt. of can gm
Wt. of can + wet soil gm
Wt. of can + dry soil gm
Wt. of water gm
Wt. of dry soil gm
Water content, ω%

Field density and compaction ratio determination

Wet density of soil γ wet
gm/cm3
Dry density of soil γ dry
gm/cm3
Maximum dry density of soil γ dry max
gm/cm3
Compaction ratio C.R %
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COEFFICENT OF PERMEABLEITY (CONSTANT HEAD) DATA SHEET 10

Project --------------------------------------------------------------- Group No.----------------------------------

Location of Project ------------------------------------------------ Boring No. --------- Sample No. --------

Description of Soil ------------------------------------------------ Depth of Sample ---------------------------

Depth of Sample ------------ Tested By -------------------------- Date of Testing ----------------------------

Sample Dimensions: Ht. cm

Diam. cm Area cm2
Vol. cm3 Unit Wt. kN/m3

Initial Wt. pan + soil gm

final Wt. pan + soil gm
Wt. of sample gm

h=( )cm

Test Data Test data Used

Test No. t, S Q, cm3 T, oC Test No. t, S Q, cm3 T, oC
1
2
3
4
Average

K T = QL/Aht =

= cm/S

η T / η 20 =

K 20 = K T η T / η 20 = cm/S
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TRAXIAL COMPRESSION TEST DATA SHEET 11

Project --------------------------------------------------------------- Group No.----------------------------------

Location of Project ------------------------------------------------ Boring No. --------- Sample No. --------

Description of Soil ------------------------------------------------ Depth of Sample ---------------------------

Depth of Sample ------------ Tested By -------------------------- Date of Testing ----------------------------

Sample data: Area, A 0 cm2 Length, L 0 cm

Machine data: Load rate mm/min σ 3= kPa

Deform. dial Area

load dial ∆L in. Unit strain Correction Normalized
reading correction area 𝐴′ deviator
∆L/L 0
factor 1-ϵ
reading (col. 2 × )
( × ) (cm2) stress, kPa
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
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‫‪CONSOLIDATION TEST‬‬ ‫‪DATA SHEET 12‬‬

‫‪Project ---------------------------------------------------------------‬‬ ‫‪Group No.----------------------------------‬‬

‫‪Location of Project ------------------------------------------------‬‬ ‫‪Boring No. --------- Sample No. --------‬‬

‫‪Description of Soil ------------------------------------------------‬‬ ‫‪Depth of Sample ---------------------------‬‬

‫‪Depth of Sample ------------ Tested By --------------------------‬‬ ‫‪Date of Testing ----------------------------‬‬

‫‪Consolidation‬‬ ‫‪Ring No.‬‬ ‫‪Multiplication of‬‬

‫‪type‬‬ ‫‪load device‬‬

‫‪Ring Dimensions:‬‬ ‫‪Diam.‬‬ ‫‪cm‬‬ ‫‪Ht.‬‬ ‫‪cm‬‬ ‫‪Area‬‬ ‫‪cm2‬‬

‫ـــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــ = ‪Initial Ht. of soil, H i‬‬

‫ـــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــ = ‪Special gravity of soil, G x‬‬
‫ـــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــ = ‪Wt. of ring + specimen at beginning of test‬‬
‫ـــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــ = ‪Wt. of ring‬‬
‫ــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــ = ‪Wt. of wet soil, W t‬‬
‫ـ ــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــ = ‪Computed dry weight of soil, 𝑊𝑠′‬‬

‫ـــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــ ـــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــ = 𝑠𝑊‪Oven dry Wt. of soil,′′‬‬

‫ـــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــ = 𝑠𝐻‪Computed Ht. of solids,′′‬‬

‫ـــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــ = ‪Initial Ht. of voids, H r = H i − H s‬‬

‫ـــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــ ــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــ = )‪Initial degree of saturation, S i = (W i −W s )/(H v A‬‬

‫ـــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــ = ‪Initial void of ratio e i = H r /H s‬‬

‫‪Water content determination‬‬

‫‪Wt. of con + wet soil‬‬ ‫‪gm‬‬ ‫‪Wt. of water‬‬ ‫‪gm‬‬
‫‪Wt. of con + dry soil‬‬ ‫‪gm‬‬ ‫‪Wt. of dry soil‬‬ ‫‪gm‬‬
‫‪Wt. of con‬‬ ‫‪gm‬‬ ‫‪Initial water content, ω i %‬‬

‫)‪Final test data (obtained at end of load test‬‬

‫‪Initial dial reading‬‬ ‫‪Final Ht. of voids, H vf‬‬ ‫‪cm‬‬
‫‪Final dial reading‬‬ ‫‪mm‬‬ ‫‪Final void of ratio e f = H vf /H s‬‬
‫‪Change in sample Ht.‬‬ ‫‪cm‬‬

‫‪Final water content determination‬‬

‫‪Final wet Wt. + ring‬‬ ‫‪gm‬‬ ‫‪final water content, ω f %‬‬
‫‪Final dry Wt. + ring‬‬ ‫‪gm‬‬ ‫‪Final degree of sat, S%‬‬
‫‪Oven dry Wt. of soil, W s‬‬ ‫‪gm‬‬
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CONSOLIDATION TEST (TIME-COMPRESSION DATA) DATA SHEET 13

Project --------------------------------------------------------------- Group No.----------------------------------

Location of Project ------------------------------------------------ Boring No. --------- Sample No. --------

Description of Soil ------------------------------------------------ Depth of Sample ---------------------------

Depth of Sample ------------ Tested By -------------------------- Date of Testing ----------------------------

Loading Test Data:

Load ‫ ــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــ‬kPa Load ‫ ــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــ‬kPa
Date applied ‫ـــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــ‬ Date applied ‫ـــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــ‬
Applied by ‫ـــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــ‬ Applied by ‫ـــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــ‬

Dial readings × ‫ـــــــــــــــــــــــــــ‬ Dial readings × ‫ـــــــــــــــــــــــــــــ‬

Clock time Elapsed Clock time Elapsed
and date time, min and date time, min
Original Adjusted Original Adjusted

0 0

0.1 0.1

0.25 0.25

0.5 0.5

1 1

2 2

4 4

8 8

15 15

30 30

60 60

120 120

256 256

420 579

1417 1410
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DIRECT SHEAR TEST, COHESIONLESS SOIL DATA SHEET 14

Project --------------------------------------------------------------- Group No.----------------------------------

Location of Project ------------------------------------------------ Boring No. --------- Sample No. --------

Description of Soil ------------------------------------------------ Depth of Sample ---------------------------

Depth of Sample ------------ Tested By -------------------------- Date of Testing ----------------------------

Soil State (wet, dry) Soil Sample (distributed, undistributed)

Data to Obtain Sample Density if not an Undistributed Sample
Initial Wt. container + soil gm
final Wt. container + soil gm
Wt. of soil used gm

Water Content Data

Wt. dry soil + cup gm
Wt. wet soil + cup gm
Wt. of cup gm
Wt. of water gm
Wt. of dry soil gm
Water content, ω%

Shear Specimen Data

Sample Dimensions:
Side cm Area cm2
Ht. cm Vol.
Density:

γ wet kN/m3 γ dry

R
kN/m3

Normal load kg
Loading rate mm/min
Normal stress, 𝜎𝑛 kPa

Loading ring constant kg/div

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COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING
CIVIL DEPARTMENT-SOIL LAB

COHESIVE SOIL, COHESIONLESS SOIL DATA SHEET 15

Vert. Vert. Horz.

Vert. dial Horz. dial Load ring Shear
displace. displace. Corr. area shear
reading reading dial stress
∆V. ∆H. 𝐴′ force N
(x0.0/mm) (x0.0/mm) reading r ( kPa)
( ) ( ) ( )

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 AL-NAHRAIN UNIVERSITY
COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING
CIVIL DEPARTMENT-SOIL LAB
CALIFORNIEA BEARING TEST DATA SHEET 16

Project: Job No.

Location of project: Boring No. Sample No.

Description of soil: W L:
Wp :
Tested by: Date of testing:

Compaction energy: rammer: No. of layers: Blows/layer:

ω at compaction: % Mold Diam.: Ht. of soil: Vol.:

Wt. wet soil: Wt.dry soil: g wet : g dry :

penetration Piston load load (kPa) penetration Piston load load (kPa)

mm dial reading mm dial reading

0 5.0

0.5 6.0

1.0 7.5

1.5 9.0

2.0 10.0

2.5 12.5

3.0

4.0

final water
Top
content ,ω

%(soaked , Middle

unsoaked
Bottom
sample)