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Consistency of Limit Remolded Soils

As stated by Karl Terzaghi,Ralph B. Peck,Gholamreza Mesri. A cohensive soil has been

remolded, its consistency can be changed at will by increasing or decreasing the water
content. Thus, for instance, if the water content of a clay slurry is gradually reduced by slow
desiccation, the clay passes from a liquid state through a plastic state and finally into a solid
state. The water contents at which different clays pass from one of these states into another
are very different. Therefore, the water contents at these trasitions can be used for
identification and comparison of different clays. However, the transition from one state to
another does not occur abruptly as soon as some critical water content is reached. It occurs
gradually over a fairly large range in the value of the water. For this reason every attempt to
establish criteria for the boundaries between the limits of consistency involes some arbitrary
elements. The method that has proved most suitable for engineering purposes was taken
over from agronomy. It is known as Atterberg's method, and the water contents that
correspong to the boundaries between the state of Consistency are called the Atterberg
Limits ( Atterberg 1911).

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A Re-Examination of Alternative Test Procedures for Soil Consistency Limit Determination: II.
A Simulated Desorption Procedure

As stated by R. A. McBride in Soil Science Society of America Journal. A soil water

retention model was used to simulate a desorption procedure for Atterberg consistency limit
determination (i) to test the validity for Ontario soils of this procedural alternative to the
A.S.T.M. standard methods in light of past research efforts, and (ii) to allow for the
assessment of soil plasticity and related soil qualities for soil inventory interpretive purposes
with only a minimum of soil physical data. From a remoulded and effectively saturated initial
condition, the upper and lower plastic limits of the 290 soil horizons investigated were
generally found to occur at the upper and lower flex points, respectively, of the estimated
moisture retention curve. The presumed absolute equivalence of the effective normal stress
required to bring soils to their respective Atterberg consistency limit moisture contents in a
compression-based test procedure with the negative pore water pressure potential at the
estimated moisture characteristic flex points was corroborated. The observed tendency to
underestimate the A.S.T.M. lower plastic limit of low clay content (marginally plastic) soils
was attributed to procedural limitations in the A.S.T.M. standard methods which set the
lower moisture content limit of plasticity of such soils unrealistically high. Clay and organic
matter contents influenced both the effectively saturated gravimetric moisture content
attained by free swelling soils in a remoulded condition and the pore water pressure
potential at the lower plastic limit. Only clay content was a significant factor in explaining
variations in pressure potential at the upper plastic limit with soil texture.

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A linear log d log w model for the determination of consistency limits of soils

As stated by Tao-Wei Feng in Canadian Geotechnical Journal, 2001. A linear logarithm

model for the fall cone penetration depth versus water content relationship (flow curve) has
been developed based on the results of an experimental study using the British fall cone
apparatus. The fall cone flow curve is expressed by a simple equation with
parameters m and c, which represent the slope of the flow curve and the water content at a
penetration depth of 1 mm, respectively. For a soil, the flow curve can be determined by
applying a linear regression analysis to at least four data points with penetration depths
approximately evenly distributed between 25 and 3 mm. It is shown in this paper that both
the liquid limit and the plastic limit determined from the linear logarithm logarithm flow
curve are in close agreement with those determined from conventional methods. A one-point
method for determination of the liquid limit is developed from the model and is verified by
applying statistical analysis to a large volume of experimental data.

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