Influence of Variation in Moisture Content to Soil Bearing Capacity in Nairobi Area and Its Environs

Ngugi, Hannah Nyambara; Shitote, Stanley Muse; Ambassah, Nathaniel Ochieng; Okumu, Victoria; Thuo, John Thiong'o

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“…Moisture content, whether in its natural state or under laboratory conditions, is a fundamental property whose influence is scarcely discussed and researched vis-à-vis soil classification. Where this property was discussed efforts were solely made to study their influence on road and pavement design and construction (Mohammed and Dahunsi, 2012;Kayode and Akinwumi, 2017;Akande et al, 2019;Ngugi et al, 2019). A group researchers discussed water content as part of index tests which were carried out to deduce the contribution of some soil layers from an offshore wind farm site to the capacity of foundations (He et al, 2021).…”

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Influence of Particle Size Distribution and Moisture Content Variability on the Characterization of Soils in Ipinsa Area, Akure, Southwestern Nigeria

A. Odundun,

A. Ademeso,

S. Ayodele

2023

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Distribution of different sizes of grains has always been useful in estimating other soil properties which will in turn help to understand soil mechanical behavior. Besides, the study area contains soil mass with layering structure which are similar to those exhibited by sedimentary rocks. Hence, the conventional sieve-hydrometer grain size analytical method and another grain size-based classification scheme were employed to characterize soil deposits found within the area of study. Results from this study showed that majority of soil samples are fine-grained. Moreover, silt fractions were found to hold a positive correlation with the effective sizes (D10) while the same could not be said of the sand and clay fractions due to their negative correlations with D10. Data from this study resulted in the zoning of soil into two categories namely; the clayey sandy silts (csSI) and clayey silty sands (csiS). Conditions under which the soils were deposited were deduced from the Silt Fraction (SF) versus Percentage Fines (PF) plot. The plots revealed that majority of the soils within the study area were deposited under low energy and intermediate conditions. A relationship was found to occur between moisture contents in the soil and their resulting zoning. Soils in the silt zone (csSI) have a better overall water content than soils in the sand zone (csiS).

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Influence of Particle Size Distribution and Moisture Content Variability on the Characterization of Soils in Ipinsa Area, Akure, Southwestern Nigeria

A. Odundun,

A. Ademeso,

S. Ayodele

2023

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Influence of Variation in Moisture Content to Soil Bearing Capacity in Nairobi Area and Its Environs

Abstract: The increasing human population in cities and urban areas continues to raise the demand for housing and other

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Influence of Particle Size Distribution and Moisture Content Variability on the Characterization of Soils in Ipinsa Area, Akure, Southwestern Nigeria

Influence of Particle Size Distribution and Moisture Content Variability on the Characterization of Soils in Ipinsa Area, Akure, Southwestern Nigeria

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