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| DC Field | Value | Language |
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| dc.contributor | United States. Army. Office of the Chief of Engineers | - |
| dc.contributor.author | U.S. Army Engineer Waterways Experiment Station | - |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2017-02-15T14:35:36Z | - |
| dc.date.available | 2017-02-15T14:35:36Z | - |
| dc.date.issued | 1967-05 | - |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/11681/21368 | - |
| dc.description | Technical memorandum | - |
| dc.description | Introduction: The adoption of the principles of soil mechanics by the engineering profession has inspired numerous attempts to devise a simple classification system that will tell the engineer the properties of a given soil. As a consequence, many classifications have come into existence based on certain properties of soils such as texture, plasticity, strength, and other characteristics. A few classification systems have gained fairly wide acceptance, but it is seldom that any particular system has provided the complete information on a soil that the engineer needs. Nearly every engineer who practices soil mechanics will add judgment and personal experience as modifiers to whatever soil classification system he uses, so that it may be said that there are as many classification systems as there are engineers using them. Obviously, within a given agency, where designs and plans are reviewed by persons entirely removed from a project, a common basis of soil classification is necessary so that when an engineer classifies a soil as a certain type, this classification will convey to another engineer not familiar with the region the proper characteristics and behavior of the material. Further than this, the classification should reflect those behavior characteristics of the soil that are pertinent to the project under consideration. | - |
| dc.publisher | U.S. Army Engineer Waterways Experiment Station. | - |
| dc.publisher | Engineer Research and Development Center (U.S.) | - |
| dc.relation | http://acwc.sdp.sirsi.net/client/en_US/search/asset/1049627 | - |
| dc.rights | Approved for public release; distribution is unlimited. | - |
| dc.source | This Digital Resource was created from scans of the Print Resource. | - |
| dc.subject | Soils classification | - |
| dc.subject | Soils classification | - |
| dc.subject | Embankments | - |
| dc.subject | Airfields | - |
| dc.title | The unified soil classification system. Appendix A, Characteristics of soil groups pertaining to embankments and foundations. Appendix B, Characteristics of soil groups pertaining to roads and airfields | - |
| dc.type | Report | en_US |
| Appears in Collections: | Technical Memorandum | |
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| WES-Technical-Memorandum-No.3-357-Appendix-A-B.pdf | 3.04 MB | Adobe PDF |  View/Open |