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More Questions from Soil Mechanics and Foundation Engineering

• The phreatic line in an earth dam may be
• The total weight of a pycnometer with water and oven dried soil 20 (g) is 1600 g. The pycnometer filled with water alone weighs 1500 g. The specific gravity of the soil, is
• In a purely cohesive soil, the critical centre lies at the intersection of
• The ratio of the volume of water present in a given soil mass to the total volume of its voids, is known
• The angle of internal friction, is least for
• The reduction in volume of soil due to squeezing out of water from the voids, is termed
• Pick up the correct statement from the following:
• A pycnometer is used to determine
• Stoke's law does not hold good if the size of particle is smaller than
• Plasticity index is defined as the range of water content between

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