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Determination of the unit weight of the soil skeleton under water

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    To evaluate the soil density when constructing hydraulic-fill dams it is recommended to use radiation instruments: gamma-gamma density meter and neutron hygrometer, which have the necessary measurement accuracy and permit obtaining results directly during construction.

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    The use of radiation instruments is most expedient in underwater hydraulic filling, since under these conditions only they provide direct measurements of the density and afford the opportunity of checking changes of the density indices with the course of time.

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  1. P. S. Bespalyi
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  2. S. T. Rozinoer
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Translated from Gidrotekhnicheskoe Stroitel'stvo, No. 2, pp. 25–28, February, 1973.

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Bespalyi, P.S., Rozinoer, S.T. Determination of the unit weight of the soil skeleton under water. Hydrotechnical Construction 7, 133–138 (1973). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02377090

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