Name: LAUS, Merg Jaron C. Section: 4CE-B Soil Mechanics Terms ____________ 1.

This is a means of determining the grain-size distribution of coarse-grained soil. ____________ 2. This is a means of determining the grain-size distribution of fine-grained soil. ____________ 3. It is conducted by taking a measured amount of dry, well-pulverized soil and passing it through a stack of progressively finer sieve with a pan at the bottom. ____________ 4. It is the percentage of soil passing through each sieve in a sieve analysis. ____________ 5. This is where the percent finer for each sieve which is determined by a sieve analysis is plotted. ____________ 6. The grain diameter is plotted on this scale. ____________ 7. The percent finer is plotted on this scale. ____________ 8. These are the two parameters that can be determined from the grain-size distribution curves of coarse-grained soil. ____________ 9. The hydrometer analysis is based on this principle of soil particles in water. ____________ 10. In the hydrometer analysis, this agent is always added to the soil. ____________ 11. This is the most common deflocculating agent used for hydrometer analysis. ____________ 12. It is the ratio of the volume of voids to the volume of soil solids in a given soil mass. ____________ 13. It is the ratio of the volume of voids to the volume of soil specimen. ____________ 14. It is the ratio of the volume of the water in the void spaces to the volume of voids. It is generally expressed as a percentage. ____________ 15. When a soil mass is completely ____________ , the moist unit weight of a soil becomes equal to the saturated unit weight. ____________ 16. It is the moisture content, in percent, at which the soil changes from a liquid to a plastic state. ____________ 17. It is the moisture content, in percent, at which the soil changes from a plastic to a semisolid state. ____________ 18. It is the moisture content, in percent, at which the soil changes from a semisolid to a solid state. ____________ 19. It is the difference between the liquid limit and the plastic limit of the soil. ____________ 20. It is a number developed for qualitative evaluation of the desirability of soil as a highway subgrade material. ____________ 21. This kind of test is more suitable in determining the hydraulic conductivity of granular soils. ____________ 22. One way of determining the rate of seepage by graphical construction is by this concept. ____________ 23. The concept above is based on this theory for a steady flow condition. ____________ 24. It is a combination of numerous equipotential lines and flow lines. ____________ 25. It is the vertical component of forces at solid-to-solid contact points over a unit cross-sectional area.

____________ 26. It is a situation wherein there is no contact stress between the soil particles and the soil will break up. ____________ 27. It is the maximum past effective past effective overburden pressure to which the soil specimen has been subjected. ____________ 28. This is when the present effective overburden pressure is equal to the preconsolidated pressure. ____________ 29. It is the slope of the unloading portion of the e-log curve. ____________ 30. It is another name for the slope of the unloading portion of the e-log curve. ____________ 31. It is a special type of unconsolidated undrained triaxial test. In this test, an axial stress is applied to the specimen to cause failure. ____________ 32. It is the axial stress at failure. ____________ 33. In clays, this is important in the evaluation of the long-term stability of new and existing slopes and the design of remedial measures. ____________ 34. This property of clay is displayed when the unconfined compression strength is much less when the soils are tested after remodeling without any change in the moisture content. ____________ 35. It is the ratio of the unconfined compression strength in an undisturbed state to that in a remolded state. ____________ 36. It is the process by which rocks are broken into smaller and smaller pieces by physical forces. ____________ 37. It is the process of chemical decomposition of the original rock. ____________ 38. These are the resulting soil deposits produced by the weathering of rocks thus being physically transported to other places. ____________ 39. These are soils which stay where they were formed and cover the rock surface from which they derive. ____________ 40. Residual soils are common in this kind of places. ____________ 41. This is a downward soil movement which is sudden and rapid. ____________ 42. These are the soil deposits formed by landslides. ____________ 43. These are soil deposits derive from the action of streams and rivers. ____________ 44. This is the valley floor in which a river meanders. ____________ 45. These are deposits from a meandering river, wherein the soil in the bank is continually eroded from the points where it is concave and are deposited at points where the bank is convex in shape. ____________ 46. This is an abandoned meander filled with water. ____________ 47. These are ridges formed by the sand and silt size particles carried by the river and are deposited along the banks. ____________ 48. These were originally finer soil particles consisting of silts and clays carried by the water farther to the floodplains that settled at different rates. ____________ 49. It is a general term usually applied to the deposits laid down by glaciers. ____________ 50. It is an unstratified deposit laid down by melting glaciers. ____________ 51. These are the landforms that developed from the deposits of till. ____________ 52. It is a ridge of till that marks the maximum limit of a glaciers advance. ____________ 53. These are ridges of till developed behind the terminal moraine at varying distances apart.

____________ 54. It is the till deposited by the glacier between the moraines. ____________ 55. These are ground moraines that constitute large areas of the Central United States. ____________ 56. These are the sand, silt, and gravel that are carried by the melting water from the front of a glacier. ____________ 57. These are formed in a pattern similar to that of a braided-stream deposit, as the melted water deposits the outwash. ____________ 58. It is an aeolian deposit consisting of silt and silt-sized particles. ____________ 59. This kind of soil is usually found in low-lying areas where the water table is above or near the ground surface. ____________ 60. It is the process of identifying the layers of deposits that underlie a proposed structure and their physical characteristics. ____________ 61. It is a step in the subsurface exploration which involves obtaining information regarding the type of structure to be built and its general use. ____________ 62. This step in the subsurface exploration is an investigation phase consisting of planning, making test boreholes, and collecting soil samples at desired intervals for subsequent observations and laboratory tests. ____________ 63. It is the simplest method of making exploratory boreholes. ____________ 64. This type auger is used for soil exploration work on some highways and small structures. ____________ 65. This auger is available for making deeper boreholes. ____________ 66. When power is available, they are the most common method for advancing a borehole. ____________ 67. It is another method of advancing boreholes wherein a casing about 2 to 3 m long is driven to the ground. ____________ 68. It is a procedure by which rapidly rotating drilling bits attached to the bottom of drilling rods cut and grind the soil and advance the borehole. ____________ 69. It is an alternative method of advancing a borehole, particularly through hard soil and rock. ____________ 70. These are the 2 types of soil samples that can be obtained during subsurface exploration. ____________ 71. They are made of seamless steel and are frequently used to obtain undisturbed clayey soils. ____________ 72. It is a versatile sounding method that can be used to determine the materials in a soil profile and estimate their engineering properties. ____________ 73. This is a presentation in a graphical form of the detailed information gathered from each borehole. ____________ 74. It is a type of geophysical exploration useful in obtaining preliminary information about the thickness of the layering of various soils and the depth to rock or hard soil at a site. ____________ 75. It is a type of geophysical exploration which effectively determines the velocity of shear waves created as the result of an impact to a given layer of soil.

ANSWERS 1. Sieve Analysis 2. Hydrometer Analysis 3. Sieve Analysis 4. Percent Finer 5. Semilogarithmic graph paper 6. Logarithmic Scale 7. Arithmetic Scale 8. Uniformity Coefficient and Coefficient of Gradation/Coefficient of Curvature 9. Sedimentation 10. Deflocculating agent 11. Sodium hexametaphosphate 12. Void ratio 13. Porosity 14. Degree of saturation 15. Saturated 16. Liquid limit 17. Plastic limit 18. Shrinkage limit 19. Plasticity index 20. Group index 21. Constant-head permeability test 22. Flow net 23. Laplace theory of continuity 24. Flow net 25. Effective stress 26. Quick condition or failure by heave 27. Preconsolidation pressure 28. Normally consolidated 29. Swelling index 30. Recompression index 31. Unconfined compression test 32. Unconfined compression strength 33. Residual shear strength 34. Sensitivity 35. Degree of sensitivity 36. Mechanical weathering 37. Chemical weathering 38. Transported soils 39. Residual soils 40. Tropical/tropics 41. Landslide 42. Colluvium 43. Alluvial soil deposits 44. Meander belt 45. Point bar deposits 46. Oxbow lake 47. Natural leeves 48. Backswamp deposits 49. Drift 50. Till 51. Moraines 52. Terminal moraine 53. Recessional moraines 54. Ground Moraine 55. Till Plains 56. Outwash 57. Outwash plains/Glaciofluvial deposits 58. Loess 59. Organic soil 60. Subsurface Exploration 61. Collection of preliminary information 62. Site investigation 63. Auger boring 64. Hand auger 65. Portable power-driven helical auger 66. Continuous-flight augers 67. Wash boring 68. Rotary drilling 69. Percussion drilling 70. Disturbed and undisturbed soil samples 71. Thin-walled tube/Shelby tubes 72. Cone penetration test/static penetration test 73. Boring log 74. Seismic refraction surveys 75. Cross-Hole Seismic Survey