Definition von atterberg limits im Englisch Englisch wörterbuch
Soil plasticity test used to measure soil cohesiveness; that is, cohesive or cohesionless
The collective designation of seven so-called limits of consistency of fine-grained soils, suggested by Albert Atterberg, 1911-1912, but with current usage usually retaining only the liquid limit, the plastic limit, and the plasticity number (or index) See also consistency, liquid limit, plastic limit, and plasticity number
The boundaries (determined by laboratory tests) of moisture content in a soil between the liquid state and plastic state (known as liquid limit), between the plastic state and the semisolid state (known as the plastic limit), and between the semisolid state and the solid state (known as the shrinkage limit)