ABSTRACT
Block diagram (a) represents a specimen in the plastic state, which just fills a container of known volume, Vo. The mass of the specimen is Mo. The specimen is then dried gradually, and as it reaches the shrinkage limit, the specimen is represented by block diagram (b). The specimen remains saturated up to this limit but reaches a constant volume Vd . When the specimen is completely dried, its mass will be M
s whereas its volume remains as Vd .
