2020年6月18日 · Finally, the difference between a lean and fat clay tends to be from how workable it is when you add water. If you keep adding water and its still like play-doh, its a fat clay. If you add water and it starts turning to soup, its a lean clay.

2014年1月21日 · Are you talking about soils in general or clay? The easiest way to tell if it is a high plasticity soil is to start with a soil that is a little too wet. Roll it into a snake a few times and your body heat/motion will pull moisture out of it. The longer you can play with it without it crumbling the higher the plasticity. If you want to know …

2021年4月1日 · In the USCS there is only Silty CLAY (ML-CL). This material has a low liquid limit and a PI of 4 to 7. You identify the soil as a whole based on grain size and atterberg limits. Using a hydrometer you can break up the difference between clay and silt, which is used in the usda classification chart.

2024年1月9日 · Not all clay swells up by adding water to it. But those clays that do are generally called fat clay. The swelling is a chemical reaction with water that can be mitigated somewhat by mixing a lime slurry or cement into it.

2018年9月27日 · Process of soil identification in the field (USCS) Hello, I wanted to ask this group how YOU personally identify your soils in the field. How do you decide whether one is a fat clay + modifiers, a lean clay + modifiers, etc.

2014年2月25日 · Retaining Wall Design Questions. I am designing a retaining wall for my class project and I have a few questions. 1.) The soil has no friction angle, Su=1250 psf, and is a fat clay. The book I'm using (Coduto, 2nd Edition) does not seem to provide a design method for a soil with a zero friction angle.

2022年9月24日 · Unfortunately surviving the long term is rediculously easy when you get the hang of it. 3-4x Flint spears, a bighorn takes 4 i think, and a boar takes 3 (thrown) butcher them, grab the meat and SAVE THE FAT get clay and make a cooking pot, 4x …

2023年11月8日 · If you add "-wrap" to the search for "anaerobic fat clay" you get good results. Apparently the pseudo science is all about wrapping yourself in clay to suck the fat out of whatever 🙄 Reply reply more repliesMore replies n1tsuj3 •

2022年10月15日 · It sounds like it could be a fat clay with excess water that is making it pump. I could be wrong, but all the following ideas are for a fat clay: If it’s fat clay usually you have to remove a minimum of 2 feet. You can remove all and replace with non expansive soil, or place geogrid down before you place your aggregate base.

These clays expand when moist and shrink when dry, so removing a large amount of water from entering the ground on the property can dry out the fat clay deposits under a section of the home and cause differential settlement. The proper fix for this problem is to install helical piles that extend below the fat clays.