Influence of Loosely Bound Water on Compressibility of Compacted Fine-Grained Soils

Table 1

Physical properties of different soil samples.

Collection site	Particle composition (%)			Specific surface area (m^2·g^−1)	Natural water content (%)	Atterberg limit			Specific gravity	United soil classification
	Clay	Silt	Sand			Liquid limit (%)	Plastic limit (%)	Plasticity index PI (%)
Xiangtan	50.80	40.98	8.22	50.34	26.4	69.9	33.4	36.5	2.71	CH
Danzhou	48.00	32.50	19.50	40.78	36.1	57.2	31.3	25.9	2.73	MH
Zhuzhou	40.41	24.52	35.07	26.91	18.7	46.7	23.6	23.1	2.66	CL
Enshi	25.77	40.01	34.22	24.47	24.75	31.01	19.2	12.32	2.75	ML
Changsha	7.76	20.12	72.12	20.39	21.2	29.8	15.6	14.2	2.69	SC