Abstract:

Soil classification very important because of it can classify soil based on their characteristic. There are
many type of soil classification has been used based on the engineering. Several example of soil
classification system using the physical characteristic are USCS and AASHTO. Thus, each classification
systems have their own group to classify soil based on the uses. The purpose of this study is to make
comparison between two main classification systems by using soil sample in Perlis. Furthermore, the factor
of affecting the group such as liquid limit and plastic limit will be known after running several laboratory
tests. The standard to determine the group of the soil has been used by using the standard table. The
standard table will guide the process of classifying soil after get the result from the laboratory experiment.
Based on the results, the group of soil have been made by using both methods and the comparison can be
made in order to get the best method of soil classification. Thus, standard classification is very important to
classify soil according to their engineering properties and helps in choosing the appropriate necessary
improvement methods before any construction or development done.