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DURABILITY OF ROADS.

CHARACTER OF SUB-GRADE SOLLS.

USE OF LINEAR SHRINKAGE TEST.

CRANE LOADS.

SAFETY

THIS WEEK'S ACTIVITIES,

Sunday, May 1-

M and Shister lunched a Government Elouse. Monday, May 3-

At an investiture hold në Govern.

The extensiva building operations which have recently boun carried out in industrial and commercialment House, His Excellency phy centres are notable alike for their Governor distributed the following magnitude and for the speed of Insignia and Grants-To Mrs. H. It is acknowledged that road aretcion. Large units, both of steel T. Creasy, Insignis and Graas of pavement or surfacing involves | add stone, enter, into the construc- Member of the Civil Division of the four major variables. These aration, imposing increasing loads on Most Excellent Order of the British The character of the material used all hoisting appliances. 7

Empire; to Messrs. Li Po Kwai and for surfacing sad the quality of the Whatever type of lifting defies Wong vong Tin, Certificates of workmanship on the surfnes, the is used it hos soms limit of capao Honour to Mr. Abbas of Arbulli, local climate conditions the kind Ity. Under normal conditions Insignia and Grant of Associate and amount of traffic and the char-cranes are erected with exporisatial Serving Brother of the Most Vener able Order of S. John of Jeru acter and conditions of sub-grade knowledge of their capabilities. The antem. soil. The Inter seems to be the tendency towards larger loads and most important of these, and in the the fact that the operator is usually aub-grade the volume changes caused by variation in the moisture con-not cognisant of each load, and, tent and by frost action are the indeed, is often not in a position factors which are probably of great to see it, have occasionally resulted est concern to the highway engin-'

the maximum capacity of the crane being exceeded, with disas trous resulta

est.

Automatle Warning.

Admittedly, no road surface with any claim to the name would go to pieces if it bore no traffic: there is no attempt here to minimise tha serious effects of heavy traffic. But To the possible loss of life, and the distortion of a subgrade due to damage to property there hare to either shrinkage or swelling through added serious delays that, throw pariations in its moisture content contracts out of schedule. From must first take away the support every point of view safeguarding from the surfacing, before a pove-measures are imperative, and an mens will go to pieces.

automatic wife load indicator an approved type will be welcom ad

A short time ago a number of in vestigations were carried out into the anuses of surfacing failures, and as a result the volumetric shrinkage of the soil was conduded to be the fundamental adverse factor:

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Tuesday, May 1;--

ment House

Mr. Barrow arrived at. Governy

sided as a meeting of the Combined His Excellency the Governor pre- Tung Walt and Kwong Wah Hos- ment House. pitals Committee held at Govern-

Mr. Stanton lunched at Govern- mont House.

Wednesday, May 4:-

His Excelianoy and Lady Peel visited the new infant welfare centre in the City of Victoria.

Major General Sir Neil Malcolm and Lieut. F. W. Webb arrived at Government. House.

Thursday, "May Bl

His Excellong the Governor and Lady Peal, accompanied by His Ex- procellones' personal staff, left on loava for Great Britain on board the RMS Empress of Japani

His Excellency the Govern sided attholmsting of EXECUTIVO Council

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Capt. Walker, RN, EL.M.S The Vickers-Nach Safe Load Captorbury lunched at Goverument dicator recently introduced mests Housemanales me all requirements, and carries tha The following were the guests at approval of the Chief Inspector of dinner-Commodore and Mrs Fautorica This device notes overy Walker, Brigadier Consens, Sir Linear Shrinkage Test.

variation of load and angle of the William Fornell, Lieut.-Colonel For measuring this. Ji linen jib. By it the operator is made shrinkage test was devised, as the aware of the load before any at- displacement of pavement seemed tempt is made to lift it. Danger- to be caused principally by the discus loads are indicated by coloured tortion of the sub-grade in one signals, and a mechanical or elec- direction vortically. The procerio and alarm provides an ad- dure for the old moisture equivaditional warning.. Moreover, a lent tout was devised to prepare soils sealed tell-bale records the condt- for the linear shrinkage test by tions imposed so that in the wetting them with comparable quan- event of a mishap it is possible to tition of water, but later it came tell if the absolute sale loud has to have, a. value of its own.

been "exceeded and, if so, do what It seems that these tests wore may be called the factor of ignor sed on existing ab-grade Boils, ance, with its attendant nisks. and the corresponding pavement conditions were carefully noted. It was found that in increase in the clay content of the soil, which, was

readily and are practically all good indiented by the test values, was subgrade scile for that very reason. accompanied by a correspondent ad Soil so mixed was moulded into versa condition of the pavement.in. by lin. by 10. bars and Taken together, they field obser. hunk to determine the near valtons led to the conclusion that shrinkage value which was consider- certain testa-limits could be useded to be the difference between the to identify good, fair and bad sub dry and wet length of the bars com- grade soils for the purpose of makputed as a percentage of the wes ing a detailed survey. The linear length. shrinkage and field moisture equiva lent percentages were used to deter mine the character of the sub-grade anil as a foundation. The stability ratio was used to measure the drain ag conditions.

This linear shrinkage, in the opinion of Mr. A. C. Rose, is con- sidered the more reliable test, but it is almost common knowledge that a general relation exists be tween the values of the feid mois ture equivalent and the linear shrinkage and that for tentative in- is.vestigation the former is indicative of the result to be obtained by the latter, which is the more difficult

Testing for Moisture. The field moisture equivalent found" as follows:-The soil is pow dered to pass a mm. serce, and water is dropped from a burette on test.

the sample, which is placed in an As a matter of fact, field obser iron bowl. The mixture is carefully Evations indicated that for the pur and constantly starred during this pose of making sub-grade soil racun. process, and as soon as the mass naissance survoys, the clay content, has gained the consistency of stiff found by mechanical analysis may putty, it is compacted, and the be considered equal to the field water is allowed to drop on the sur- moisture equivalent. When this faca until no more is absorbed, equivalent was less than 20 the When the absorption is complete, incar shrinkage was usually neg the surface will assume a wet, shiny igible and the soil made a good appearance, which indicates the sub-grade; when the field moisture critical period of the test.

equivalent varied between 20 and 30 the linear shrinkage percentage usually did not exceed & and the soil made fair rub-grade; and when the field imoisture equivalent exceeded 30 the "linear shrinkage percentage usually was greater than "B per cent. and the soil made a poor

The water content of the soil, divided by the dry weight of the soil, gives a rosult which, when multiplied by 100, is the field mois. turo equivalent. This cannot be ac curately determined for a value under 20, but soils of lower value are so coarse grained as to drain sub-gruda.

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