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Use of Fall-Cone Flow Index for Soil Classification: A New Plasticity Chart
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Vardanega, paul
Haigh, Stuart
o'kelly, brendan
Abstract
Use of the Casagrande (plasticity) chart to classify fine-grained soils using Atterberg’s liquid and plastic limits is ubiquitous in geotechnical engineering. This classification is dependent on the thread-rolling and Casagrande-cup tests which are both more operator dependent than the fall-cone liquid limit test. This paper shows that the slope of the data acquired during the fall-cone liquid limit test, (the fall-cone flow index) can be used to redraw the standard plasticity chart thus allowing classification of fine-grained soils to be achieved solely from fall-cone liquid limit data.
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laboratory tests, soil classification, standards & codes of practice, statistical analysis
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Geotechnique: international journal of soil mechanics
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0016-8505
1751-7656
1751-7656
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ICE Publishing
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