Practice Field Deposit Prediction (3.2) - Square-root – time curve fitting method

Practice: Field Deposit Prediction

Lesson 3.2Square-root – time curve fitting method

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Question 1.
Define consolidation in your own words.
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Think about how weight affects soil.
Question 2.
What is the importance of the drainage path in consolidation?
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Visualize water moving through soil.
3Question 3.
What is the main characteristic of consolidation?
- Increase in soil volume
- Decrease in soil volume
- No change in soil volume
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Think about how weight affects soil.
4Question 4.
True or False: The log-time method fits a curve that emphasizes linear behavior.
- True
- False
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What does a logarithmic scale typically show?
Question 5.
A new soil sample predicts consolidation based on laboratory data indicating it takes 45 minutes for a 20 cm drainage path. Under field conditions, the path length doubles. How would you predict the new consolidation time?
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Use the relationship between time and drainage path length to reason it out.
Question 6.
You experimentally determined that a sample consolidates exponentially. How might you present your findings using both square-root and log-time methods?
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Illustrate and clearly label both graphs for comparison.

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