Exercise Problems:

1. A dry soil is placed in a container having a volume of 0.0089 cm3. The dry weight of the sample is 0.014
grams. Water is carefully added to the container so as not to disturbed the condition of the soil. When the
container is filled, the combined weight of soil plus water is 0.0174 grams. Find the following: (+10 pts)

a) Void Ratio e) Saturated unit wt. in kN/m3

b) Porosity d) Effective unit wt. in kN/m3
c) Water content f) Dry unit weight in kN/m3
d) Specific gravity

2. Determine the weight of water in kN that must be added to a cubic meter of soil to attain a 95% degree of
saturation, if the dry unit wt. is 17.5 kN/m3, its moisture content is 5%, the specific gravity is 2.65. (+10 pts)

3. Show that at saturation the water content is:

(nγ )
ω w
(γ  nγ )
sat w
Starting from Se = ωGs