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Zuluf Water Proj. nº: WT2201
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Technical Specification
for Earthworks and Soil Rev 03
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Figure 1 - AASHTO classification

Where the Group Index is calculated as:

GI = 0.2a + 0.005 ac + 0.01bd

a= percentage of soil passing 0.074 mm sieve in excess of 35 per cent, not exceeding 75;

b= percentage of soil passing 0.074 mm sieve in excess of 15 per cent, not exceeding 55;

c= Liquid limit in per cent in excess of 40.;

d= Plasticity index in excess of 10.

DocuSign Envelope ID: DA448B71-899B-4119-A61F-6BCFE1188341

CLIENT PROJECT COMPANY EPC CONTRACTOR

Zuluf Water Proj. nº: WT2201
Treatment Plant Doc nº: WT2201-FIT-CW-TSP-A00-0002
Technical Specification
for Earthworks and Soil Rev 03
Improvement
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100

90 Structural backfilling limits

80

70

60
Passing [%]

50

40

30

20

10

0
0.01 0.1 1 10 100
Grain size [mm]

Figure 2 - Backfilling material grain size limits

D Upper limit Lower limit

(mm) (%) (%)

60 100 100

31.5 100 72

11.2 78 45

2.0 50 28

0.425 30 17

0.074 15 5

Table 1 - Grain size limits for the structural backfilling