Classification of Soils

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IS Classification of
Grain Size

Pranamesh Chakrabor2
ty
IS Classification of Grain
Size

Pranamesh Chakrabor3ty
 Difference between coarse grained soil and Fine grained soil
Coarse Grained Soil
1. In these soils, more than 50% of
the total material by weight is
larger than 75 micron IS sieve
2. For examples, sand, gravel,
cobble, boulders etc.
3. These soils are cohesionless.
4. These soils does not possess
plasticity property and called non-
plastic soils.
5. These soils contains very small
amount of adsorbed water,
because electrochemical forces
between the soil particles are very
small.
Fined Grained Soil
1. In these soils, more than 50% of
the total material by weight is
smaller than 75 micron IS sieve.
2. For examples, clay, silt, fine sand
etc.
3. These soils are cohesive.
4. These soils possess plasticity
property and called plastic soils.
5. These soils contains large amount
of adsorbed water, because of
strong electrochemical forces
between the soil particles.
Particle size distribution or Mechanical Analysis
Particle size drstnibution, is a method of
separation of soils into different fractions based
on the particle size.
 It is also known as mechanical analysis.
 It expresses the proportions by mass of various
sizes of particles present in a soil.

The mechanical analysis is performed in two

stages :
(i) Sieve analysis
(ii) Sedimentation analysis
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