CALIBRATION OF NON-NUCLEAR DEVICES FOR CONSTRUCTION QUALITY CONTROL OF COMPACTED SOILS

Inadequate compaction of a soil subgrade can lead to detrimental outcomes that are not only costly but dangerous to the general public. To avoid this, quality control (QC) devices such as the nuclear density gauge (NDG) are currently being used to monitor the compaction and moisture content of soil...

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Main Author: Wells, Joshua E. R.
Format: Others
Published: UKnowledge 2014
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Online Access:http://uknowledge.uky.edu/ce_etds/20
http://uknowledge.uky.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1023&context=ce_etds