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Applications
Swell Factors
According to DIN18300, the following soil classes have the given swell factors.
DTM-Volume II
Volume of the material after excavation from its original location.
DTM-Volume II
=
DTM-Volume I
x
Swell Factor
.
Weight Factor
Weight in tons per m
3
of material. Editable field.
Weight
Total weight of material after being excavated.
Weight
=
DTM-
Volume II
x
Weight Factor
.
Field
Description
Soil class
Description
Swell factor
1
Topsoil containing unorganic material, as well as humus
or organic animals.
1.10 - 1.37
2
Fluent soil types of fluid to semi-fluid consistency.
n/a
3
Easily degradable soil types. Cohesionless to hardly
cohesive sands.
1.06 - 1.32
4
Moderately degradable soil types. Mixture of sand, silt
and clay.
1.05 - 1.45
5
Hard to degrade soil types. Same soil types as classes 3
and 4, but with a greater ratio of stones bigger than
63mm and between 0.01 m
3
to 0.1 m
3
in volume.
1.19 - 1.59