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University of Karbala ‫ قسم المدني‬/ ‫كلية الهندسة‬

Engineering Collage/civil

Dividing Test For Aggregate

‫ غيث ناجح هدام‬-:‫االسم‬

‫ المرحله الثانيه‬-A-

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 Quartering Dividing Method for Aggregate -1

Purpose of Experiment: reduction the size sample to provide

.a laboratory sample from the bulk sample

Specifications: lraqi Specifications (IQS No. 29/ 1987) (Method

.for Sampling Aggregate fillers and Rock Used in Construction)

:Equipment and Materials

Scoop ( Shovel) 2-Materials (sand or gravel) -1

:Test Procedure
Mix the mam sample thoroughly on plane surface by using a .1
scoop, in the case of the fine aggregate, due to the segregation,
which often occurs when material is stockpiled with coarse
particles rolling to the outside base of the pile
The main sample heaped into a cone and then turned over to .2
.form a new cone, this is repeated three
The material deposited at top of the cone so as to evenly .3
. disabuse round the circumference of cone
The lineal cone is flattened by pressing with scoop and di died .4
.into approximately equal quarters
one pair of diagonally opposite quarters is discarded. And the .5
.remainder forms tube sample for testing
If the sample still too large, the process will repeated to reduce .6
. the sample size
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 Riffling Dividing Method for Aggregate -2

Purpose of Experiment: reduction the size sample to provide a

.laboratory sample from the bulk sample

Specifications: lraqi Specifications (IQS No. 29/ 1987) (Method

.for Sampling Aggregate fillers and Rock Used in Construction)

:Equipment and Materials

Scoop ( Shovel) 2-Materials (sand or gravel) -1
Riffle (box with a number of parallel vertical divisions. Alternate -3
ones discharging to the left and to the right)

:Test Procedure
Mix the main sample thoroughly on plane surface by using a .1
.shovel, in the case of the fine aggregate. must be surface dry
.The main sample is discharged into riffle over its full width .2
The two halves are collected in two boxes at the bottom of the .3
.chutes on each side
On half is discarded, and riffling of the other half is repeated .4
.until the sample is reduced to the desired size

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 -:Discussion
When we want to check large amounts of gravel
.or sand
We select the random quantity and we put the
quantity in the form of a circle and an equal
surface to be the sections of the circle equal and
divide the circle into 4 sections We choose the two
opposite peaks and neglect the remaining two
kisses and the selection of the random sections
and then move the sections to neglected and take
the two caps that were taken and mixed and work
them again and work circle And the surface is
divided into 4 sections as well as random take two
parts opposite and neglect the other opposite
peaks and the situation in the sieve of the sections
that were taken if the material Hsuo will have its
sieve contains large openings and at the bottom of
the sieve two It is Alhso from left to right and from
the dump right to left in order to equal quantities
in the urns and then randomly ignore the pot and
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 choose the other vessel, as well as his work and
put stuff in the sieve and will be the results of
sieve in the urns as well as neglecting the pot and
.choose pot
As for the material sand, we do the same steps of
gravel, but the only difference is the sieve, which
must be completely dry not to attach sand in the
openings and then sand covered by the sieve
openings as well as small sand sieve openings
because sand grains small smaller than the gravel
.much
This method is very important in the laboratory to
examine the model is it successful or failed and is
it good for the external loads that shed it or not,
and if the examination failed we do not neglect
the quantity in full, but we use in other uses, such
as does not control the forces or large forces

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