Physical and Compaction Properties of Granular Materials with Artificial Grading behind the Particle Size Distributions

Figure 5

Statistical constant analysis results of dam granular material C and the comparison between different methods: (a) based on the grading analysis (S1); (b) based on the Weibull distribution (S1); (c) the difference in the statistical constant results by using different methods ( represents particle size of granular materials; represents the corresponding cumulative content of the grains with the size smaller than ; is the total content of all grains).

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