Question $5$

Zebazoko Consultants received a tender to develop a design for the $100km$ section of the Tutu road in Luapula Province. Part of the project specifications entails advising the contractor, who will be responsible for road construction, on the appropriate type of aggregates to be sourced from the borrow pit. As a material engineer stationed at the

Prepared by: Mr$.$ P Mpundu $2024$

laboratory within Zebazoko Consultants $HQ,$ you have been tasked with analyzing an aggregate sample obtained from a borrow pit, as detailed in Table $3.$ Your assignment involves calculating the sieve analysis of the aggregate and generating a plot on a semilog gradation paper using MS Excel graphs. What is the maximum size and why? What is the nominal maximum size and why?

Table: $3$

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