Foundation Engineering Exercise No.

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Direction: Answer the following questions, please write your solutions on the space provided and
encircle your final answer. Submit thru our MS Teams on the Assignment tab.
Name: John Benedict L. Parungao Course/Yr/Section: BSCE IV-1

1. A soil has a unit weight of 19.12 kN/m3. For Gs= 2.67 and w = 12.1 percent, find γdry, void ratio e,
porosity n, and degree of saturation S.

2. A soil has an in-situ void ratio eo = 1.80 and wn = 60.0 percent; from laboratory tests and estimation we
have Gs = 2.68, LL = 55 percent, and PI = 30. What are the wet unit weight γwet, and the liquidity index
LI?
3. From the given table below, Determine the percentage of gravel, sand and silt and clay.

% Passing sieve Soil A Soil B

No. 4 84
No.40 36.5
No. 200 18.8 100