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

Table 2

Mineral compositions of different soil samples.

Sample	Mineral composition (%)
	Quartz	Montmorillonite	Illite	Kaolinite
CH	39.5	0.4	33.1	27.0
MH	69.1	1.2	11.5	18.2
CL	74.3	1.0	15.1	9.6
ML	85.8	0.6	6.5	7.1
SC	90.6	0.3	5.1	4.0