PARTICLE SIZE ANALYSIS OF SOILS BY SIEVE & HYDROMETER

Project: Design, Supply, Installation, Testing & Commissioning Of Rooppur Dhaka (Aminbazar- Kaliakoir) 400kv
Double Circuit Transmission Line On Turnkey Basis (Package-2).
Client: Power Grid Company Of Bangladesh Limited (PGCB)
Location: Rooppur - Dhaka.
BH No.: T-13/0 Sample No.: D-3
Sample Type: Disturbed Depth (m): 4.5

Test Results
Size fractions
Gravel : 75.00 mm to 4.75 mm = 0.00 %
Coarse sand : 4.75 mm to 2.00 mm (Passing #4 and retained on #10) = 0.00 %
Medium sand : 2.00 mm to 0.425 mm (Passing #10 and retained on #40) = 0.00 %
Fine sand : 0.425 mm to 0.075 mm (Passing #40 and retained on #200) = 3.84 %
Silt size : 0.075 to 0.005 mm = 77.74 %
Clay size : smaller than 0.005 = 18.42 %
Colloid : smaller than 0.001 = 0.00 %
100.0
Visual classification: silty CLAY.
USCS classification: CL

D10 D30 D50 D60 Sand Fines Specific

D95 (mm) LL PL PI
(mm) (mm) (mm) (mm) (%) (%) Gravity
0.001 0.011 0.026 0.033 0.073 3.84 96.16 38.0 23.0 15.0 2.69

coarse medium fine

gravel silt clay
sand sand sand Elapsed
100 Hydrometer
time
reading
90 (min)
0.5 34
80 1 32
2 26
70
4 20
Percent finer, %

60 8 16
15 14
50
30 11
40 60 9
120 6
30
240 5
20 480 4
1440 3
10

0
100 10 1 0.1 0.01 0.001
Particle size, mm

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