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INTRODUCTION

A sieve analysis is a practice or procedure used to assess the particle size distribution of a
granular material. The size distribution is often of critical importance to the way the material
performs in use. A sieve analysis can be performed on any type of non-organic or organic
granular materials including sands, crushed rock, clays, granite, feldspars, coal, and soil, a
wide range of manufactured powders, grain and seeds, down to a minimum size depending on
the exact method. Being such a simple technique of particle sizing, it is probably the most
common. During the test, sieves are oriented with the largest sieve located at the top of the
stack followed consecutively by the smaller sieves. Prior to conducting the test the own
weight of each sieve is recorded. Once the rice sample is collected and weighed, it is then
placed on the top sieve and covered with the lid. Throughout the test, the sieve stack is
vibrated and the soil particles fall through the sieve openings until the sieve opening is
smaller than the rice particle. Following the test, each sieve plus the collected rice is weighed
and compared to the weight of an empty sieve. With this data a grain-size distribution plot
can be developed. As the sieve number increases the size of the openings decreases. This test
is performed to determine the percentage of different grain sizes contained within a rice. The
mechanical or sieve analysis is performed to determine the distribution of the coarser, larger-
sized particles.

Objective

1) To conduct sieve analysis on a powder sample

2) To characterize the particle dimension base on

the distribution of sample dimensions.

3) To define the different particle size dimensions.

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