ASTM Volume 04.08:2014

Published annually in March.

This volume contains 214 standards.

Volume 04.08 covers tests and practices that establish standard procedures for soil testing, including compaction, sampling, field investigation, soil texture, plasticity, density characteristics, moisture content, and hydrological and structural properties. Others focus on construction control, and ground water investigations, or detail test methods that explain how to measure the properties of soil-cement and tests for peats, mosses, and humus.