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This document contains the work and results from Ana Medina for their CE 3414 homework on soil classification. It includes determining the liquid limit, plastic limit, plasticity index, and liquidity index for two different soils based on data from liquid and plastic limit tests. For the first soil, the liquid limit is 29%, plasticity index is 15.6%, and liquidity index is 1.19. For the second soil, the liquid limit is 24%, plasticity index is 4.9%, and liquidity index is 0.39.

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This document contains the work and results from Ana Medina for their CE 3414 homework on soil classification. It includes determining the liquid limit, plastic limit, plasticity index, and liquidity index for two different soils based on data from liquid and plastic limit tests. For the first soil, the liquid limit is 29%, plasticity index is 15.6%, and liquidity index is 1.19. For the second soil, the liquid limit is 24%, plasticity index is 4.9%, and liquidity index is 0.39.

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Ana Medina

@01260592
CE 3414
Homework 3: 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 4.4
4.1
Results from liquid and plastic limit tests conducted on a soil are given below.

Liquid limit tests:

Number of blows, N Moisture content (%)


14 38.4
16 36.5
20 33.1
28 27

Plastic limit test: PL=13.4%

a. Draw the flow curve and obtain the liquid limit.

Flow Curve
40
38
36
34
32
Moisture content (%) 30
28
26
24
22
20
10 12 14 16 18 20 22 24 26 28 30
Number of Blows (N)

At 25 blows, moisture content is approximately 29%, therefore the liquid limit is 29%.

b. What is the plasticity index of the soil?


PI = LL – PL = 29% - 13.4% =15.6%

4.2
Determine the liquidity index of the soil in problem 4.1 if w in situ=32%

w−PL 32−13.4
LI = = =1.19
¿−PL 29−13.4
Ana Medina
@01260592
CE 3414
4.3
Results from the liquid and plastic limit tests conducted on a soil are given below:

Liquid limit tests:

Number of blows, N Moisture content (%)


13 33
18 27
29 22

Plastic limit tests: PL= 19.1%

a. Draw the flow curve and obtain the liquid limit.

Flow Curve
40
38
36
34
32
Moisture content (%) 30
28
26
24
22
20
10 12 14 16 18 20 22 24 26 28 30
Number of Blows (N)

At 25 blows, the moisture content is approximately 24%, therefore the liquid limit is
24%.

b. What is the plasticity index of the soil?


PI = LL – PL = 24% - 19.1% = 4.9%

4.4
Determine the liquidity index of the soil in problem 4.3 if w in situ=21%.

w−PL 21−19.1
LI = = =0 .39
¿−PL 24−19.1

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