Solved By Ben David on the 7th of April 2020 SOIL

April 7, 2020 [HYDRAULICS & GEO-TECHNICAL MECHANICS

PROBLEM: You have been hired as a Project Engineer for a development company to build 500
housing units surrounding four lakes. Since the original ground is low, you will use the limestone
excavated from the lake to fill the land in order to build roads and housing pads. Your estimated fill
requirements are 700,000m3 , with a dry density equivalent to a void ratio e = 0.46. The “in – situ”
limestone extracted from the lakes has an e 0.46. The “in – situ” lime stone extracted from the
lakes has an e 0.39 , whereas the limestone dumped into the trucks has an e 0.71. How many
truckloads will you need, if each truck carries 10m3 ?

a 75, 000 truck – loads b 82, 000 truck loads c 45, 000 truck loads d 90, 000 truck loads

SOLUTION: Assume Vs 1m3 e Vv 0.46 m3 in the compacted fill

The required 700,000m3 of fill have 1.46 m3 of voids per each 1 m3 of solids

Therefore , the 700, 000 m3 of fill have solids

Each truck carries ( 1 + 0.71) m3 of fill per 1 m3 of solids

In order for the trucks to carry 479,000 m3 of solids they must carry
479,400(1.71) 819,090 m3 of fill
SLIDE 338H
Since each truck carries 10 m3 of fill

The number of truck loads 81,909

Say 82, 000 truck – loads. Answer Select b

35 – Tons Caterpillar
dump truck
Application Of Soil
Mechanics In Large
Scale Housing
Project

Reference Textbook
Soil Mechanics In Engineering
Practice By Ralph Peck