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Title: The unified soil classification system. Volume 3, Appendix B, Characteristics of soil groups pertaining to roads and airfields
Authors: U.S. Army Engineer Waterways Experiment Station
Keywords: Soils
Roads
Airfields
Flexible pavement
Publisher: U.S. Army Engineer Waterways Experiment Station.
Engineer Research and Development Center (U.S.)
Description: Technical memorandum
Introduction: The properties desired in soils for foundations under roads and airfields and for base courses under flexible pavements are: adequate strength, good compaction characteristics, adequate drainage, resistance to frost action in areas where frost is a factor, and acceptable compression and expansion characteristics. Certain of these properties, if inadequate in the soils available, may be supplied by proper construction methods. For instance, materials having good drainage characteristics are desirable, but if such materials are not available locally, adequate drainage may be obtained by installing a properly designed water collecting system. Strength requirements for base course materials, to be used immediately under the pavement of a flexible pavement structure, are high and only good quality materials are acceptable. However, low strengths in subgrade materials may be compensated for in many cases by increasing the thickness of overlying concrete pavement or of base materials in flexible pavement construction. From .the foregoing brief discussion, it may be seen that the proper design of roads and airfield pavements requires the evaluation of soil properties in more detail than is possible by use of the general soils classification system. However, the grouping of soils in the· classification system is such that a general indication of their behavior in read and airfield construction may be obtained.
Rights: Approved for public release; distribution is unlimited.
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/11681/21357
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