Sand Pouring Cylinder

Sand Pouring Cylinder

A circular hole is dug into the ground, all the soil from within it collected, weighed and dried and the whole back filled with a standard uniform sand or fine gravel poured from a calibrated container for calculating the volume of the hole.
The Sand Pouring Cylinder used for determination of the dry density of compact, fine, medium grained soils and for layers not exceeding 50cm thickness.
The complete apparatus consists of a Sand Pouring Cylinder fitted with Conical funnel and Shutter, Cylindrical Calibration Container, and a Metal tray with a central hole.
The sand pouring cylinder 115 mm Dia is fitted with conical funnel and shutter 3-liter capacity,
This apparatus is used for determination of the dry density of compaction.
Cylindrical calibrating container 100 mm Dia * 150 mm hit, a metal tray 300*300*40 mm with 100 mm central hole