CESM0414 – Geotechnical Engineering 1 (Soil Mechanics)
Problem Set 3
Instructions for Assignment:
A. Copy the following problems to your notebook.
B. Show your solution for each problem.
C. Answer the assignment in the provided google form in our google classroom. The
deadline will be announced after the discussion of this topic.
D. The problem set of this topic will be compiled together with other topic problem set on
the said notebook.
Problems:
A. Classify the following soils using the U.S. Department of Agriculture textural classification
chart.
Particle Size Distribution (%)
Soil
Sand Silt Clay
1 20 20 60
2 40 25 35
3 55 5 40
4 50 15 35
5 70 15 15
6 30 25 45
B. Classify the following soils by the AASHTO classification system.
Sieve Analysis – Percent Finer Plasticity
Soil Liquid limit
No. 10 No. 40 No. 200 Index
7 90 74 32 28 9
8 90 48 22 31 5
9 42 28 12 18 13
10 92 68 30 42 18
CESM0414 – Geotechnical Engineering 1 (Soil Mechanics)
C. Classify the following soils using the Unified soil classification system. Give the group
symbols and the group names.
Sieve Analysis – Percent Finer Liquid Plasticity
Soil 𝑪𝒖 𝑪𝒄
No. 4 No. 200 limit Index
11 70 30 33 21
12 48 20 41 22
13 88 78 69 38
14 90 8 39 31 3.9 2.1
15 100 2 NP 7.2 2.2
