Lecture 2: Grain Size Distributions and Soil Particle ...
Procedure for Sieve Testing of Soils: a) Pour oven−dried soil of mass M 0 into the top sieve of the stack; b) Shake and agitate the stack of sieves until all soil grains are retained on the finest sized sieve through which they can possibly pass; c) Weigh the mass of soil M i retained on each sieve. d) For each sieve size used, compute N i