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A New Device for Compaction Control. Edition No. 1
VDM Publishing House, Aug 2008, Pages: 232
Compaction of soil is essential in the construction
of highways, airports, buildings and bridges.
Typically compaction is controlled by measuring the
dry density and the water content of the compacted
soil. There is a trend towards measuring the
soil modulus instead or in addition to density. The
reasons are that the density measurements are made
using nuclear density meter, an undesirable tool in
today's political environment and that pavement
design uses moduli as an input parameter. Although
there are many apparatus available to measure soil
modulus in the field such as Falling Weight
Deflectometer and Dynamic Cone Penetrometer, a light
weight device which can measure the soil modulus
fast and accurately is in great need.
This book presents the newly patented Briaud
Compaction Device (BCD) which is a portable device
measuring soil modulus in several seconds. The
principle of the BCD is explained and the validation
process of BCD is demonstrated in this book. This
book should help shed some light on the the field of
compaction control technologies and should be useful
to professionals in the construction and
manufacturing industry.
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