Since the laboratory tests are carried out only on particles smaller than either 4.76mm or 19.1mm size, laboratory compaction tests are not directly applicable to the compaction in practice.
The range of particle sizes larger than the present upper l...
Since the laboratory tests are carried out only on particles smaller than either 4.76mm or 19.1mm size, laboratory compaction tests are not directly applicable to the compaction in practice.
The range of particle sizes larger than the present upper limits specified in this paper, however, can be determined experimentally by means of a compaction test in which the efforts and the sizes of molds are increased simultaneously such that the energy given to the samples is maintained at same values.
Inspection of the test results shows that a modification of the Walker-Holtz's equation results in an more accurate estimation of the maximum densities to an extent depending on the contents of coarse grained.