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Grain size and three-dimensional particle ...

Jerzy Trzciński, University of Warsaw, Faculty of Geology, Poland

Discipline
Geology, Building engineering

Analyser
AWK 3D

Abstrakt
The knowledge and capability of measuring the grains size and three-dimensional (3D) particle shape is very important in basic research and in practice. This knowledge finds a lot
of applications in a number of geology disciplines (sedimentology, petrology, mineralogy, hydrogeology, engineering geology, soil science, soil mechanics), and in the geotechnics,
hydrotechnology and is frequently used in the analysis of geomaterials for various industries and applied in the building engineering or road engineering. Very time and labour-consuming
measuring methods are used for these types of analyzes. The application of automatic measurements of the grains size and 3D particles shape with the use of the optical electronic AWK 3D analyzer, speeds up such measurements making them more accurate. The Zingg shape classification used for the analysis of the particles shape is commonly known and applied in testing and may successfully be used in practice. The results obtained pending measurements allow calculating a number of additional parameters of grains distribution necessary in the wide spectrum of tests and practice.

Source
11th Baltic Sea Geotechnical Conference, Geotechnics in Maritime Engineering
Gdańsk, Poland 15-18 September 2008