Question

How to difine coarse aggregate sand silt in us sieve analysis?

Answer 1

A sieve analysis ( a gradation test ) is a practice or procedure used ( commonly used in civil engineering ) to assess the particle size distribution ( also called gradation) of a granular material by allowing the material to pass through series of sieves of progressively smaller mesh size and weighing the amount of material that is stopped by each sieve as a fraction of the whole mass.

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