TY - BOOK AU - Liu,Cheng AU - Evett,Jack B. TI - Soil properties: testing, measurement, and evaluation SN - 9780136141235 AV - TA710 .L547 2009 PY - 2009///] CY - Upper Saddle River, N.J. PB - Pearson/Prentice Hall KW - Soil mechanics KW - Soils KW - Testing N1 - Table Of Contents; Preface; Preface to the First Edition; Introduction; Soil Exploration; Description and Identification of Soils [Visual-Manual Procedure]; Determining the Moisture Content of Soil and Rock by Mass (Conventional Over Method); Determining the Moisture content of Soil (Microwave Oven Method); Determining the Specific Gravity of Soil; Determining the Liquid Limit of Soil; Determining the Plastic Limit and Plasticity Index of Soil; Determining the Shrinkage Limit of Soil; Grain-Size Analysis of Soil (Including Both Mechanical and Hydrometer Analyses); Classification of Soils for Engineering Purposes; Determining Moisture-Unit Weight Relations of Soil (Compaction Test); Field Determination of Water (Moisture) Content of Soil by the Calcium Carbide Gas Pressure Tester; Determining the Density and Unit Weight of Soil in Place by the Rubber-Ballon Method; Determining the Density and Unit Weight of Soil in Place by Nuclear Methods (Shallow Depth); Percolation Test; Permeability Test for Granular Soils (Constant-Head Method); Permeability Test for Fine-Grained and Granular Soils (Falling-Head Method); Consolidation Test; Determining the Unconfined Compressive Strength of Cohesive Soil; Triaxial Compression Test; Direct Shear Test; California Bearing Ratio Test; Graph Papers ER -