CIVIL ENGINEERING LABORATORY

UITM PAHANG, KAMPUS JENGKA

HIGHWAY ENGINEERING
ECG344
OPEN-ENDED LAB
MAC 2020 – JULY 2020

TITLE OF : CALIFORNIA BEARING RATIO (CBR)

EXPERIMENT
DATE OF : 17TH NOVEMBER 2020
EXPERIMENT
GROUP : EC1105A
GROUP MEMBERS : 1. NUR HUSNINA ATHIRAH BINTI BAHARUDIN
(2018284076)
2. NURIN HAZIRAH BINTI HASBI ZAIDI (2018280346)
3. MUHAMMAD RIZWAN SYAFIQ BIN ZULKIFLI
(2018212666)

LECTURER : ENCIK MUHAMMAD MOKHTAR BIN SAMAT

LEVEL OF OPENESS : 0

NO ELEMENT COPO Marks COMMENTS

1 INTRODUCTION

2 BASIC CONCEPT

SUMMARY OF
3
PROCEDURES/METHOD
ANALYSIS AND
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INTERPETATION OF DATA

5 DISCUSSION OF RESULT 2 4 6 8 10

6 CONCLUSIONS 2 4 6 8 10

TOTAL MARKS /20

Analysis and Interpretation of Data

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NO. OF BLOWS 10 30 65

Proving Proving Proving

Load in Load in Load in
Penetration (mm) Ring Ring Ring
(kg) (kg) (kg)
Reading Reading Reading

0.00 0 0 0 0 0 0
0.50 16 94.02 14 82.26 15 88.14
1.00 24 141.02 28 164.53 37 217.41
1.50 26 152.72 37 217.41 54 317.30
2.00 30 176.28 45 264.42 66 387.82
2.50 33 193.91 51 299.61 74 434.82
3.00 35 205.66 56 329.06 84 493.58
4.00 38 223.29 63 370.19 100 587.60
5.00 41 240.92 70 411.32 117 687.49
7.50 56 329.06 83 487.71 128 752.13
10.00 73 428.95 92 540.59 144 846.14
12.50 85 499.46 103 605.23 154 904.90
Table 1

Penetration vs Load for 10 blows

600

500

400
Load in kg

300

200

100

0
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12
Penetration in mm

Figure 1

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Penetration vs Load for 30 blows

700

600

500

400

Loadinkg
300

200

100

0
0.00 0.50 1.00 1.50 2.00 2.50 3.00 4.00 5.00 7.50 10.00 12.50

Penetration in mm

Figure 2

Penetration vs Load for 65 blows

1000
900
800
700
600
Load in kg

500
400
300
200
100
0
0.00 0.50 1.00 1.50 2.00 2.50 3.00 4.00 5.00 7.50 10.00 12.50
Penetration in mm

Figure 3

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Percentage MDD vs cbr graph

35

30

25

20
CBR

15

10

0
87.09 97.91 101.65

% MDD

Figure 4
At 97% MDD, CBR is 20.70%
PENETRATION BLOWS % MAX CBR % MDD
2.5 mm 10 14.8 87.09
2.5 mm 30 21.9 97.91
5.0 mm 65 33.33 101.65

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Discussion

Conclusion

References
1. DETERMINATION OF CBR https://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=0cAE4cSKo_s&feature=youtu.be
2. CALIFORNIA BEARING RATIO TEST
http://www.iricen.gov.in/LAB/res/pdf/test-07.pdf