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Title:

COMPACTION AND COMPRESSION CHARACTERISTICS OF MICACEOUS FINE SANDS AND SILTS

Accession Number:

00233642

Record Type:

Component

Abstract:

RESIDUAL SOILS DEVELOPED FROM METAMORPHIC AND IGNEOUS ROCKS FREQUENTLY CONTAIN LARGE AMOUNTS OF MICA, WHICH IS CONSIDERED DETRIMENTAL, BECAUSE SUCH MAY BE EXCESSIVELY COMPRESSIVE. HOWEVER, THE CRITICAL PERCENTAGES OF MICA FOR VARIOUS SOIL TYPES HAVE NOT BEEN DETERMINED. LABORATORY TESTS ON SYNTHETIC AND NATURAL MICACEOUS SOILS INDICATE THAT SOILS CONTAINING LESS THAN 10 PERCENT MICA AND COMPACTED TO MODIFIED PROCTOR DENSITIES SHOW NO SIGNIFICANT CHANGES IN DRY DENSITY OR COMPRESSIBILITY. WITH INCREASING MICA CONTENT, THE DRY DENSITY DECREASES AND THE COMPRESSIBILITY INCREASES. THE PRESENCE OF FINE MICA HAS A GREATER INFLUENCE ON COMPRESSIBILITY THAN COARSE MICA. CORRELATION OF RESULTS BETWEEN SYNTHETIC AND NATURAL SOILS APPEARS TO BE GOOD. /AUTHOR/

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Monograph Title:

Soil compaction

Monograph Accession #:

01409993

Authors:

McCarthy Jr, David F
Leonard, Roy J

Pagination:

pp 23-37

Publication Date:

1963

Serial:

Highway Research Record

Issue Number: 22
Publisher: Highway Research Board

Conference:

42nd Annual Conference of the Association for the Advancement of Automotive Medicine

Location: Charlottesville, Virginia
Date: 1998-10-5 to 1998-10-7

Media Type:

Print

Features:

Figures (15) ; References (13) ; Tables (4)

Uncontrolled Terms:

Proctor compaction test

Subject Areas:

Geotechnology; Highways

Files:

TRIS, TRB

Created Date:

Jul 1 1994 12:00AM

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