Modeling of Minimum and Maximum Void Ratios of Granular Soils

Table 3

Minimum and maximum void ratios for CB-Mix-No. 1 (CB-1), CB-Mix-No. 2 (CB-2), G1-1, and G2-8, obtained from the Chang model and Chang–Youd models’ prediction and test.

Soil ID	n	ei				Chang model emin	Chang–Youd model emin	Test emin	Chang–Youd model			Test
		Chang model	Chang–Youd model	Chang model	Chang–Youd model				ei		emax	emax
CB-1	1	0.707	0.737	0.701	0.692	0.701	0.713	0.705	1.289	1.230	1.248	1.257
	2	0.716	0.731	0.675	0.713				1.280	1.248
CB-2	1	0.692	0.679	0.495	0.494	0.622	0.620	0.59	1.207	0.967	1.119	1.099
	2	0.707	0.734	0.622	0.620				1.285	1.119
	3	0.717	0.732	0.621	0.618				1.283	1.095
	4	0.732	0.688	0.519	0.515				1.221	0.907
G1-1	1	0.832	0.464	0.139	0.106	0.214	0.260	0.242	0.768	0.359	0.511	0.541
	2	0.558	0.436	0.213	0.203				0.757	0.476
	3	0.241	0.464	0.209	0.260				0.831	0.511
	4	0.063	0.343	0.103	0.172				0.660	0.315
G2-8	1	0.781	0.467	0.616	0.469	0.636	0.494	0.546	0.772	0.807	0.836	0.774
	2	0.710	0.456	0.638	0.493				0.756	0.836
	3	0.632	0.515	0.626	0.491				0.867	0.828
	4	0.555	0.580	0.578	0.460				0.994	0.776