What should be percentage of silt content in sand?
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Answer / saddam hussain
silt content % limit where it mentioned in is-383 code
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Answer / sanjeev
IS 383 gives limit for 'material finer than 75 micron' as 3% for uncrushed and 15% for crushed fine aggregate, and this is for a combination of silt (0.002 to 0.075 mm) and clay (<0.002mm), and not only for silt.
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Answer / siddharam g
I need suitability of silt content in construction work
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Answer / vishal bhart kunturkar
8% but according to zones variation it also varries
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Answer / sagar sawant
Silt content shoud not be more than 5% of sample of sand
Volume
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It's must that silt %
between 0-6% as per
IS If silt is more than
6% then we are
cleaning sand......
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