Manuscript Number : IJSRCE2266
Importance of Soil Classification and Soil Testing in Construction Industry
Authors(3) :-Abid Bashir Baba, Muhammad Kamal Khan, Bashar Hussein
Nobody wants a construction project to turn out to be like the Leaning Tower of Pisa, right? Well, to prevent your construction project from being so and from worse fatal accidents, you need to get soil testing done after buying the piece of land and before beginning any construction. With roughly more than 1.5 million people involved in the construction world wide, a rate of 80 deaths per 1000 workers is observed, out of which 30-40 workers die in accidents related to trenching. Trenching accidents are extremely dangerous. Workers can suffer death or serious injury in mere minutes if caught in a trenching cave in. As the soil testing is one of the most important things to keep in mind during any construction project, however, it is the most overlooked step during the planning. The reason being the most people aren’t aware of such scientific lab testing of soil and for small residential projects and excavations, it is ignored fully. In this article we will discuss some related topics that are often overlooked, including soil classification and testing in construction particularly in excavation.
Abid Bashir Baba
Transmission Engineering Department, Dubai Water and Electricity Authority, Dubai,
Muhammad Kamal Khan
Transmission Engineering Department, Dubai Water and Electricity Authority, Dubai,
Bashar Hussein
Transmission Engineering Department, Dubai Water and Electricity Authority, Dubai, UAE
Soil Testing, Bearing Capacity, Structures, Materials, Trenching, Cave in, Excavation
- www.groundengineering.wordpress.com, Issue June 22, 2016
- ASTM D 2488, Practice for Description and Identification of soils (Visual-Manual Procedure)
- ASTM D 2487 Test method for Classification of Soils for Engineering Purposes.
- Caral O. Morgan, Excavation Safety, A Guide to OSHA Compliance and Injury Prevention, 2003.
- ASTM D 2487, Unified Soil Classification System. [6]. AASHTO M 145
- Hogentogler, C.A.; Terzaghi, K. (May 1929). "Interrelationship of load, road and subgrade". Public Roads: 37–64
Publication Details
Published in : Volume 6 | Issue 4 | July-August 2022
Date of Publication : 2022-08-30
License: This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
Page(s) : 61-66
Manuscript Number : IJSRCE2266
Publisher : Technoscience Academy
URL : https://ijsrce.com/IJSRCE2266
Article Preview