Investigation of the Effects of Anisotropic Flow of Pore Water and Multilayered Soils on Three-Dimensional Consolidation Characteristics

Table 2

Physical properties and compaction characteristics (at standard Proctor) of soils.

Properties	Silty-sand soil	Silty-clay soil
Specific gravity	2.58	2.50
Liquid limit (%)	25.30	53.35
Plastic limit (%)	19.03	29.32
Plasticity index (%)	4.27	24.03
Grain size
Sand (%)	61.60	4.86
Silt (%)	21.68	41.46
Clay (%)	16.72	53.68
Optimum moisture content (OMC) (%)	13.10	25.75
Maximum dry density (MDD) (gm/cm^3)	1.88	1.56
Permeability at MDD (cm/sec)