CALIFORNIA BEARING
RATIO TEST
(CBR)
Class presentation by :
Neha kumari karna
Civil A
INTRODUCTION:
Developed by California division of highway.
• To evaluate the strength of soil subgrades and base course materials.
• It is the ratio expressed in percentage of force per unit area required to penetrate
a soil mass with a standard circular plunger of 50mm diameter at the rate of
1.25mm/min to that required for corresponding penetration in a standard material
APPARATUS
APPARATUS
Inside diameter=150mm
Height=175mm
Detachable perforated base plate =235mm
Thickness=10mm
Net capacity=2250 ml
SIGNIFICANCE
• Used to classify and evaluate strength of
the soil subgrade and base coarse
materials for the flexible pavement .
• It is an empirical and the results cannot
be accurately related with any
fundamental properties of the material.
PROCEDURE
Take 4.5 to 5 kg of soil and mix it thoroughly with required
quantity of water (OMC)or field moisture content .
The spacer disc is placed at the bottom of the mould over the
base plate and a course filter paper is placed over the spacer
disc .
The moist soil is to be compacted over this in the mould by
adopting either light or heavy compaction .
After compacting the last layer ,collar is removed and excess of
soil above is trimmed off.
The clamps are removed and the mould with the compacted soil is
lifted ,leaving below the base plate and spacer disc is removed .
CONT…
• A filter paper is placed on the base plate ,the
mould with compacted soil is inverted and placed
over the base plate and clamps are tightened .
• Weight of 2.5 -5 kg are placed over the soil in the
mould ,then the whole mould is placed in the
water tank to allow soaking for 4 days .
• Penetration plunger is brought in contact with the
top surface of the soil by applying 4kg of load.
• The dial gauge of proving ring and the
CONT…
The load is applied through penetration rate of 1.25mm/min.
The load readings are taken at
0.0,0.5,1.0,1.5,2.0,2.5,3.0,4.0,5.0,7.5,10.0,12.5mm of
penetration.
The max load valve and the corresponding penetration value
are recorded.
A graph is plotted by penetration(mm)on x-axis and load(KN)
on y-axis and the value of penetration 2.5 and 5.5mm are
found from the graph.
Finally the CBR value is calculated from the formulae.
As per IRC recommendation the minimum value required for a
subgrade should be 8%.
GRAPH
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