engineering recuitment GATE CE 2023-24 Test Series Soil Mechanics and Foundation Engineering Compaction
Which of the following options is/are correct?
1
Soil compacted to the dry side of optimum swells more in comparison to soil to the wet of optimum.
2
Considering the arching effect of pile, critical depth for loose to medium sand is 15D, where D is the diameter of pile.
3
At low applied stresses, the dry compacted soil has truss like arrangement of particles.
4
During drying, soils compacted in the wet side tend to show more shrinkage than those compacted in the dry side