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CMC is a proprietary product, talk to their representatives in your state.

jhgestimator, I think the problem you described lies in two scenarios: 1. Settlement of the bridge abutment caused by consolidation of the expansive clay 2. Deformation of the reinforced fill (which in turn affects the bridge abutment) caused by the shrinkage/swelling of the expansive clay. As...

Hi BigH, the reason being the client may opt for a spreadsheet for either better presentation or for an appreciation of the calculation process (as there are quite some variants in computing the permeability in packer tests, based on some literatures). But certainly hand calcs are good as well...

Hi guys, I was required to carry out some packer test in the field recently and just wondering if anyone has a program/excel spreadsheet handy to interpret/compute the data?

To paganel: for the use in my model, it is a constrained modulus. you're right. triaxial CD with specified cell pressure will give me the E' I want.

Hi Guys, Got a problem that has annoyed me for a while. I understand drained Young's Modulus E' of clay can be obtained from Oedometer consolidation test in the Lab; and there are also many published correlations between CPT qc, relative density and E' for SAND. However, I was wondering if...

Thanks for your advice, Drumchaser. I wonder if you have a set of specification handy for the type of works you did in your area? Cheers,

Hi guys, see if this illustration helps (excuse my terrible drawing). http://files.engineering.com/getfile.aspx?folder=47518d69-4dd1-4b16-b806-ff4fdf452fac&file=drawing1.pdf

Hi guys, I've got a little bit more information on the project. I've been given a photo of the site(see attached). The stage 1 embankment has a temporary wire mesh/geotextile faced temporary retaining wall due to the limited space. And during the compaction at near the temp. retaining wall...

There is traffic on stage 1 already and the construction is about to finish (not paved yet) on Stage 2. The crack is already developing in between stage 1 and stage 2. We didn't notice any lateral movement, maybe it's too little to observe.

Hi Emmgjld, To your questions: embankment is constructed with common fill (mostly cohesionless materials + some cohesive) with soaked CBR specified as > 3. original subgrade is 1m basaltic clay underlain by basalt. The clay has a moderate swell of 2.5%. GW is well below the original surface...

Hi Ron, the embankment is about 6m high and pavement is just conventional asphalt, so it's flexible pavement rather than rigid concrete (I'm not so familiar with pavement works). Compaction for subgrade directly under pavement is 98% std and I think for rest of embankment is 95-97% std from my...

Hi Ron, at the interface between the two, there has been an obvious crack, or faulting. Photo's at work. Settlement does occur in the adjoining area between stage 1 and 2 and I think in exactly the same way as you, "it's difficult to compact this area". But it gotta be some construction method...

Hi guys, recently having a problem with staged constructions of high fill embankment. The embankment constructions were done in 2 stages to allow alternating traffic (i.e. stage 1 embankment constructed on one half of the road and then stage 2 on the other half of the road, following the...

Thanks BigH. This is very useful.