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CALIBRATION OF RAPID MOISTURE METER
(RMM)
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August 13, 2020
CALIBRATION OF RAPID MOISTURE METER
(RMM)
REF. CODE- IS:2720 Part-2
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Rapid moisture meter (RMM) is most popular equipment
for quick
determine the moisture content of soil and fine aggregate in
construction
fields.
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The RMM can be determine moisture content very quick
within 5
minutes, up to 50% or 25% as per capacity of RMM.
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But there are different between actual moisture
content & RMM value
most of the cases, that’s why we need to be compare RMM
reading with
actual moisture.
Working Principal
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Carbide (CaC2) reacted with Water (Moister SUBSCRIBE
in test sample) and
produce gas. This gas developed a pressure in RMM chamber which show on
RMM
meter.
CaC2 + 2H2O → C2H2(gas) + Ca(OH)2
Calibration Procedure
Step-1
At first take 1000 gm completely dry sand and divide it
equally 10 nos. of
sample, each sample weight = 100 gm.
During this process it should be noted that the weight
balance can be measured
weight by 0.01 gm accuracy for good result.
Sample-1 100 gm
Sample-2 100 gm
Sample-3 100 gm
Sample-4 100 gm
Sample-5 100 gm
Sample-6 100 gm
Sample-7 100 gm
Sample-8 100 gm
Sample-9 100 gm
Sample-10 100 gm
Total= 1000 gm
Step-2
Take sample-1 than add 2% of water by weight and mixed
with sample properly
to make homogeneous mix.
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Now take 6 gm sample from sample -1 (water mixed sample)
and test by RMM,
then note the RMM reading.
Step-4
After test of sample-1 in RMM take the remaining sample
for find out moisture
content by Oven dry method
Step-5
Now repeat🔁 the step- 2,3 & 4 for sample-2, sample-3 , ......... Sample-10 .
But added water shall be increase 2% for every sample by this manner 👇
Sl No Wt.
of dry Added
% of Wt.
of
Sample Water Water
Added
Sample-1 100 gm 2% 2 gm
Sample-2 100 gm 4% 4 gm
Sample-3 100 gm 6% 6 gm
Sample-4 100 gm 8% 8 gm
Sample-5 100 gm 10% 10 gm
Sample-6 100 gm 12% 12 gm
Sample-7 100 gm 14% 14 gm
Sample-8 100 gm 16% 16 gm
Sample-9 100 gm 18% 18 gm
Sample-10 100 gm 20% 20 gm
Step-6
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Now test all remaining individual sample by oven dry method and find out
moisture content of each samples.
Step-7
After find out moisture content of each Sample, Draw a X-Y graph 📈
Because RMM Reading directly proportional to Actual moisture content
Then RMM is function of Actual moisture.
like
Y= f(x) or Y= mX + C
Step-8
Make the graph
Sample RMM Oven dry
No Reading Moisture
(%)
Sample-1 2 1.84
Sample-2 5 4.08
Sample-3 6 6.12
Sample-4 8 8.1
Sample-5 10 10.2
Sample-6 12 11.9
Sample-7 13 13.87
Sample-8 15 15.77
Sample-9 17 18.2
Sample- 18 19.68
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Step-9
Now apply the Liner Equation and find out actual moisture content,
In during field test use this chart and find out the result
y = 1.1211x -
0.9075
Test Moisture
RMM Value
(%)
1 0.21
2 1.33
3 2.46
4 3.58
5 4.70
6 5.82
7 6.94
8 8.06
9 9.18
10 10.30
11 11.42
12 12.55
13 13.67
14 14.79
15 15.91
16 17.03
17 18.15
18 19.27
19 20.39
20 21.51
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22 23.76
23 24.88
24 26.00
25 27.12
26 28.24
27 29.36
28 30.48
29 31.60
30 32.73
31 33.85
32 34.97
33 36.09
34 37.21
35 38.33
36 39.45
37 40.57
38 41.69
39 42.82
40 43.94
41 45.06
42 46.18
43 47.30
44 48.42
45 49.54
46 50.66
47 51.78
48 52.91
49 54.03
50 55.15
