In: Civil Engineering
Solve the given below problem and justify the statement, “When the degree of saturation of a soil sample is less than 100% then its water content also should be less than 100%” Problem: A soil sample has a diameter of 38 mm and a height of 76 mm. Its wet weight is 1.15 N. Upon drying its weight reduced to 0.5 N. In the wet state what was the degree of saturation and water content of the soil sample. Take ‘G’ as 2.7.