... circumstances either air-drying (Allbrook, 198 0; Pandian et al., 199 3) or removal of any soil particle size fraction ( Dumble-ton and West, 196 6; Sivapullaiah and Sridharan, 198 5; BSI, 199 0) can markedlyaffect ... (Dumbleton and West, 196 6; Campbell, 197 5; Wires, 198 4) and plastic (Ballard and Weeks, 196 3; Gay and Kaiser, 197 3; Campbell, 197 6b) limit tests led to the developmentof the drop-cone test for ... in-dex and the shear strength (Nichols, 193 2; Voight, 197 3), the cohesion (Gibson, 195 3), or the angle of internal friction of a soil (Gibson, 195 3; Kanji, 197 4; Hum-phreys, 197 5). Wroth and...