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Quality Assurance Handbook for Rural Roads Volume-I - pmgsy

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VISUAL SOIL CLASSIFICATION*<br />

From Wagner, 1957<br />

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<strong>Quality</strong> <strong>Assurance</strong> <strong>Handbook</strong> <strong>for</strong> <strong>Rural</strong> <strong>Roads</strong><br />

ANNEX 300.1<br />

a Boundary Classifications. Soils possessing characteristics of two groups are designated by combinations of<br />

group symbols. For example GW-GC, well graded gravel-sand mixture with clay binder<br />

b All sieve sizes on this chart are U.S. standard. Corresponding to the US 380 mm sieve size, the equivalent<br />

Indian Standard is IS 425 mm sieve size.<br />

* Source : Soil Mechanics by T.W. Lambe and R.V. Whitman, John Wiley and Sons, 1979

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