Densitometer test steps include:
1. The soil sample with moisture content should be used for the particle analysis test by the density meter method. It can also be carried out by air-drying (drying) soil samples;
2. For air-dried (dried) soil samples, take 100-300 g of representative soil samples, put them in a mortar, and grind them with a pestle with a rubber tip. Pass the ground soil through a 2mm sieve, grind and sieve the soil on the sieve until only particles larger than 2mm remain on the sieve;
3. The soil samples with a particle size of less than 2 mm were mixed uniformly, and the soil samples with the mass of soil particles were taken as the samples. When the moisture content soil sample is used as the sample, the required wet soil mass is calculated as follows:
4. Pour the prepared sample into the Erlenmeyer flask, inject about 200cm3 of water, soak it for more than 18 hours, and use the soil sample with natural moisture content to directly conduct the particle analysis test, without soaking or shorten the soaking time. After a little shaking, bring to a boil on a sand bath. Time from the time of boiling, clay and soil that is not easy to disperse, boil for about 1 hour, and other soils should not be less than 0.5 hours;
5. After the soil densitometer sample is cooled, pour it into the measuring cylinder used for the particle test, wash the soil in the beaker and pour it into the measuring cylinder, add 10cm3 of dispersant and then add 1000cm3 of clean water;
6. Use a stirrer to stir up and down the entire suspension depth in the measuring cylinder for about 1 min, reciprocating 30 times each, so that the soil particles in the suspension are evenly distributed;
7. Take out the stirrer, start the stopwatch at the same time, and measure the density meter readings at 1, 2, 5, 15, 30, 60, 120, and 1440min. Type B densitometer is recorded as, type A densitometer is recorded as. Put the density meter into the graduated cylinder about 15 seconds before each measurement, and take out the density meter after reading. When reading, pay attention that the density meter float should not be close to the wall of the measuring cylinder, and the reading is the reading of the rising point of the meniscus. A hydrometer is estimated to 0.1, and B is estimated to 0.0001. After reading, measure the temperature of the suspension to 0.5°C;