Get particle size from sieve number — size.from.sieve • GMisc

Converts ASTM sieve numbers to particle sizes in millimetres or inches.

Usage

size.from.sieve(sieve, metric = T)

Arguments

sieve: A numeric vector of ASTM sieve numbers (e.g. 4, 10, 200).
metric: Logical. If TRUE (default), returns sizes in millimetres; if FALSE, returns sizes in inches.

Value

A numeric vector of particle sizes corresponding to each sieve number.

Details

This function is taken from the "geotech" package from James Kaklamanos

See also

Other soil mechanics, classification: Dsize(), USCS(), USCS.coarse.symbol(), USCS.fine.symbol(), grainSize.coefs(), percentComponents()

Examples

size.from.sieve(c(4, 10, 40, 200))
#> [1] 4.750 2.000 0.425 0.075
size.from.sieve(c(4, 10, 200), metric = FALSE)
#> [1] 0.18700 0.07870 0.00295