Determination of Bulk Density and Water Content of a Cohesive Soil
“ Objective The objective of this experiment is to determine the bulk density and water content of a wet, cohesive soil. Introduction The bulk density of a soil is simply the total mass per total volume. This means the soil sample is weighed with the water still in the sample and then divided by the total volume it occupies giving the bulk density. Finding out the bulk density of a soil is important as it can reveal how much total dry material you have when you relate it to the water content of the soil sample. Finding out the water content of a soil is important as it can aid in the design of practical problems such as planning drainage lines or irrigation. Theory The experiment tha ... ”
Subscriber content preview. Subscriber content preview continued. “ ... found to be 2.21 Mg/m3. There weren't any difficulties that can be reported during the experiment as the methodology of it was fairly simple and straight forward, although the results could have been made more accurate by taking more samples from the same area and then taking averages to reduce the error. This is so that if engineers are going design the foundations for a building where the soil sample was taken from then they would need to make sure that the values calculated are in fact valid for the whole area and not just the spot where they took the sample from. But for the scope of this investigation it was not really necessary to ”
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