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Presented by :- KOMAL AGARWAL and

RICHA CHATURVEDI
HYDROME
TER
METHOD
PIPETTE
METHOD

SIEVE
ANALYSIS
SIEVE SEDIMEN
ANALYS Coarse TATION
IS sieving Mtd. Pipette Mtd.

Hydrometer
Fine sieving
Mtd.
COARSE SIEVING:- FINE SIEVING:-

- Oven - Oven
- Brush - Brush
- IS sieve of sizes 100, 63, 20, - IS sieve of size 2mm,
10, and 4.75 mm. 1.0mm, 600 425, 300, 212,
- Balances 150, 75 micron.
- Tray - Tray
- Mechanical shaker
COARSE SIEVING :- FINE SIEVING :-
- take the soil sample and sieve it - Wash the sample after passing
through 4.75 mm sieve.
first through the first set of IS - 2 gms of sodium hexametaphosphate
sieve i.e. 100, 63, 20, 10 and is added per litre of water used.
- washing should be done till the water
4.75 mm passing through 75 micron sieve is
- Sieving is done in mechanical clean.
- The fraction retained on 75 micron
shaker for at least 5 to 10 sieve is dried and dried portion is then
minutes. re- sieved through the second set of
sieve.
- Now wt. The material retained on
each sieve to 1.0 gm. - i.e from 2mm, 1.0mm, 600 425, 300, 212,
150, 75 micron.
- And then percentage finer is - The portion passing through 75 micron
calculated. sieve is dried and its mass is determined
to get % finer than 75 micron size.
Sieve size wt. %wt. retained Cumulative %finer (N)
Retained(gm) wt. Retained

80mm 5 5 5 95

40mm 25 25 30 70

20mm 35 35 65 35

10mm 15 15 80 20

4.75mm 20 20 100 0

total= 100gm
APPARATUS :-
- a pipette
a jar or boiling tube
number of sampling bottles of 500 ml capacity.
- soil suspension is made :-
About 12 to 30 gm of oven-dried sample is weighed and mixed with distilled
water in a dish to form a smooth paste
a dispersing agent is added to the soil ( de flocculating agent)
Here 33 gm of sodium hexametaphosphate + sodium carbonate is added in
distilled water to make one litre of solution
25 ml of this solution is added to the dish and the mixture is warmed gently for
about 10 minutes.
The contents are then transferred to the cup of mechanical mixer and the soil
suspension is then stirred well for 15 minutes.
Now the suspension is washed through 75 micron sieve using jet of water and
the suspension, passed through the sieve is transferred to the 500 ml capacity
of boiling tube.
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The tube is then filled to the 500 mark, by adding distilled water
Tube is then put in constant temperature water bath
The soil suspension is thoroughly shaken by inverting the tube several
times and then replaced from the bath.
The stop watch is then started, and soil samples are collected at various
time intervals.( , 1, 2, 4, 8, 15, 30 )
10 ml samples are collected from the soil suspension from depth of 10 cm,
with the help of pipette, at various time intervals.
Samples are then collected into the weighing bottles or sampling bottles and
kept in the oven for drying.
The mass Md per ml of suspension is calculated as:-
Md = dry mass sample in the weighing bottle
Vp
% finer is calculated as:-
N = (Md m/V ) * 100
Md/V
where, m = mass of dispersing agent present in total
suspension of volume V
V = vol. Of suspension = 500 ml
N =N% finer based on Md.
Hydrometer
Jars (two)
Mechanical stirrer
Balance
Stop watch
Sieve 75 micron
Centimetre scale
Distilled water
Soil weighing dish
Soil suspension preparation is same as in pipette mtd.
But the volume of sample is 100 ml.
So, double the quantity of dry soil and dispersing agent.
Stop watch is started and the hydrometer is slowly inserted in the
jar and reading are taken at , 1, 2 minutes time interval
Then hydrometer is taken out.
He
Diameter
% finer (N)
He = ( H + h/2+ Vh /2A )- Vh/A
D = 10-5 F He /t
where, F = 10 3000
( G 1)
m

% finer ( N ) = N * M/M

Where N = 100G R/ Md ( G 1)

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