FE Civil Geotechnical Engineering - Classify Soil Using USCS

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[@marlontoro8843]

When checking whether a soil is gravel or sand you should use coarse fraction, not just the fraction that passes sieve no 4. You could get the wrong answer this way and you should edit that.

[@CivilThinking]

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Amazing explanation!

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[@andreaprockup219]

Hi thank you for the video. I have a couple of questions based on the problems you did on the video. So to classify a soil using the USCS Method when is a gravel or sand and you want to determine the next classification ( clean gravel, gravels with fines, or clean sands or sands with fines we always look at the % passing for sieve 200? Also, how do you classify if a soils is organic or inorganic? Last question is the retained % instead of passing % you mentioned we have to add up all the % retained in the sieves, would that apply of we have to find another sieve besides sieve 4 ?

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[@4RyanEck]

On #5 you classified the soil as Sand and that is correct but you did that based on 12% retained (88% passing), this is technically not correct. The Sand classification should be based on the Course Fraction which would actually be (88-39)/61=80.3% which represents your Sand Fraction of the Course Materials.

[@Genieprep]

Hello Ryan, thank you for sharing this. You can solve this problem in so many different ways, and looks like your method works. So we could solve this problem using the fraction, but it would take a little bit too long for the FE exam. When we are giving the percentage retained, the best way to solve it, is to take the sum up to 200 sieve and then solve from there. I hope this makes sense and thank you for watching! Good luck with your studying!

[@reecewilliams3269]

@@Genieprep Hello! Thank you so much for your videos. I do want to add that Ryan is correct here, and that if you just take the total percent retained on #4 sieve instead of the percent of the coarse fraction that is retained, you could occasionally get the wrong answer. In calculating the percent of the coarse fraction retained on #4 sieve, it should be R4/R200.

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my question is how can these information be used on hydraulic open concrete channel or designing a dam ? I know clay definitely play as impermeable layer in the landfill and on gravity dam structure. It would be better if you could correlate to actual infrastructures that ordinary citizens have access and benefit from. These videos are intended for FE problem solving but in order to be fully onto our heart and brain is to see in our practical life daily uses. That way I retained my English much better as well something can be done here examples of modern product of civil engineering from ordinaries.

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Hello, I did not get as many questions as in phase relationships but I still got like one or two questions! Hope this helps 😊

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do examples with sieve sizes not sieve numbers

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