A soil from a pit has the following in situ properties: w=12%, e=0.54, G_s =2.65 This soil will be used for the construction of an embankment, which will have a total volume of 44,000 m^3 at completion. The soil will be compacted (this operation densifies the material by reducing the void size without changing the amount of solid particles or water) during construction to a dry unit weight of gama_d=18.3 kN/m^3. The soil is transported from the pit to the embankment location by trucks. Each truck can carry approximately 62 kN of soil. Determine: degree of saturation, total unit weight in situ, dry unit weight in situ the number of truck loads necessary to transport all the soil the volume of the excavated pit

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The degree of saturation is the ratio of the volume of water to the volume of voids It is denoted by ... View the full answer