What should be percentage of silt content in sand?

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What should be percentage of silt content in sand?..

Answer / jadish arya

silt should be 5%

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What should be percentage of silt content in sand?..

Answer / saddam hussain

silt content % limit where it mentioned in is-383 code

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What should be percentage of silt content in sand?..

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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What should be percentage of silt content in sand?..

Answer / siddharam g

I need suitability of silt content in construction work

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What should be percentage of silt content in sand?..

Answer / vishal bhart kunturkar

8% but according to zones variation it also varries

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What should be percentage of silt content in sand?..

Answer / sagar sawant

Silt content shoud not be more than 5% of sample of sand
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What should be percentage of silt content in sand?..

Answer / v.kapil

As per IS 2116 it should not be more then 5%.

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What should be percentage of silt content in sand?..

Answer / vasanth kumar

Only 6% of silt

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What should be percentage of silt content in sand?..

Answer / gokul.m

should not be more than 6%

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What should be percentage of silt content in sand?..

Answer / guddu singh

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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