Soil Testing Manual

Soil Testing Manual
Author: Robert W. Day
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Professional Publishing
Total Pages: 650
Release: 2001
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN:

The essential tool for geotechnical and soil engineering fieldwork Written by AIA award-winning civil engineer Robert Day, Soil Testing Manual gives engineers, geologists, contractors, on-site construction managers -- anyone who needs answers on the characteristics of soil -- a convenient, complete source of today's most authoritative solutions. This reader-friendly guide simplifies each step of every process, from selecting appropriate methods to analyzing your results. Filled with handy tables, charts, diagrams, and formulas that eliminate time-wasting and frustrating searches and calculations, this manual gives you better results in less time as you: Get expert approaches to testing altered and disturbed soils Set up a mobile field lab with complete directions Use rip-out sheets for on-site reference and checks Get quick access to data on grading, instrumentation, technical methods, procedure guidelines, and preferred practices Draw authoritative conclusions on fill compaction Measure cohesiveness, shear strength, settlement, permeability, and other critical parameters Construct a subsoil profile

Introduction to Soil Mechanics Laboratory Testing

Introduction to Soil Mechanics Laboratory Testing
Author: Dante Fratta
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 250
Release: 2007-05-21
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 1420045652

A step-by-step text on the basic tests performed in soil mechanics, Introduction to Soil Mechanics Laboratory Testing provides procedural aids and elucidates industry standards. It also covers how to properly present data and document results. Containing numerical examples and figures, the information presented is based on American Society f

Soil Classification Tests

Soil Classification Tests
Author: Standards Australia Limited. Committee CE-009, Testing of Soils for Engineering Purposes
Publisher:
Total Pages: 24
Release: 2009
Genre: Soils
ISBN: 9780733791383

Laboratory Testing of Soils, Rocks, and Aggregates

Laboratory Testing of Soils, Rocks, and Aggregates
Author: Nagaratnam Sivakugan
Publisher: J. Ross Publishing
Total Pages: 241
Release: 2011
Genre: Science
ISBN: 1604270470

Contains virtually all current laboratory tests for soils, rocks and aggregates in one volume with references to international standards: ASTM, ISRM, BS, and AS.

Soil Classification Tests

Soil Classification Tests
Author: Standards Australia Limited. Committee CE-009, Testing of Soils for Engineering Purposes
Publisher:
Total Pages: 8
Release: 2009
Genre: Soils
ISBN: 9780733790058

Soil Classification Tests

Soil Classification Tests
Author: Standards Australia Limited. Committee CE-009, Testing of Soils for Engineering Purposes
Publisher:
Total Pages: 8
Release: 2009
Genre: Soils
ISBN: 9780733790065

Interpreting Soil Test Results

Interpreting Soil Test Results
Author: Pam Hazelton
Publisher: CSIRO PUBLISHING
Total Pages: 201
Release: 2016-11
Genre: Nature
ISBN: 1486303978

Interpreting Soil Test Results is a practical reference enabling soil scientists, environmental scientists, environmental engineers, land holders and others involved in land management to better understand a range of soil test methods and interpret the results of these tests. It also contains a comprehensive description of the soil properties relevant to many environmental and natural land resource issues and investigations. This new edition has an additional chapter on soil organic carbon store estimation and an extension of the chapter on soil contamination. It also includes sampling guidelines for landscape design and a section on trace elements. The book updates and expands sections covering acid sulfate soil, procedures for sampling soils, levels of nutrients present in farm products, soil sodicity, salinity and rainfall erosivity. It includes updated interpretations for phosphorus in soils, soil pH and the cation exchange capacity of soils. Interpreting Soil Test Results is ideal reading for students of soil science and environmental science and environmental engineering; professional soil scientists, environmental scientists, engineers and consultants; and local government agencies and as a reference by solicitors and barristers for land and environment cases.

Laboratory Tests for Unsaturated Soils

Laboratory Tests for Unsaturated Soils
Author: Eng-Choon Leong
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 436
Release: 2023-02-16
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 1351600249

The testing of unsaturated soils requires greater care and effort than that of saturated soils. Although unsaturated soil mechanics has been embraced by geotechnical engineering, engineering practice has not yet caught up as the characterization of unsaturated soils is difficult and time-consuming, and made harder still by a lack of standards. Laboratory Tests for Unsaturated Soils collates test procedures to cover all laboratory tests for characterising unsaturated soils. It covers the background, theory, test procedures, and interpretation of test results. Each test procedure is broken down into simple stages and described in detail. The pitfalls of each test and the interpretation of the test results are explained. Test data and calculation methods are given, along with many numerical examples to illustrate the methods of interpretation and to offer the presentation of typical results. The book is especially useful for students and researchers who are new to the field and provides a practical handbook for engineering applications.