fill

Definition

Soil or granular material added to raise the ground. It goes down in thin layers, each one compacted; placed in one thick layer, it settles for months and makes new hollows. The calculator counts it as compacted volume, then converts it to the volume to order.

Sources

1. The published conversion factors show that one cubic metre of soil in place gives less than one cubic metre once compacted (for example 0.90 for loam and clay). (Table 1-1)

   Estimating for Mission Requirements (reproduces FM 5-434 Earthmoving Operations, Table 1-1) · United States Marine Corps, TECOM