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Defense Department form, series DD, number 1210. Full title: DD Form 1210, Laboratory Compaction Characteristics of Soil (Compaction Test), December 1999. Function: Laboratory Compaction Characteristics of Soil (Compaction Test). Edition in force: not stated. Publisher status: not stated.
Issued under not stated, with not stated as proponent. A DD number marks a Department-wide instrument: the same blank form serves every military department and the defense agencies, rather than one service alone.
The form reaches military personnel across the services, civilian employees of the Department, and the personnel and records specialists who receive it.
Timing of submission is fixed by not stated and by the implementing guidance of the submitting organization. What follows describes the blank document, not agency procedure.
The download set covers PDF. Document length is 1 pages with about 164 entry fields.
Distribution centres on pdf. Two states exist: fillable, where field boxes accept keyboard input and retain it, and printable, a static blank produced for manual completion. Typed data reproduces cleanly across copies; handwritten data depends on the writer.
What the form asks for
- 1. Project.
- 2. Excavation number.
- 3. Sample number.
- 4. Date.
- 5. Layers.
- Blows per layer.
- 6. Weight of tamper (pounds).
- 7. Height of drop (inches).
- 8. Specific gravity of solids (Gs).
- 9. Diameter of mold (inches).
- 10. Volume of soil sample. Press space bar to mark X in first box if 0.0333 cubic feet or second box if 0.075 cubic feet.
- 11. Run number, column 1.
- 12. Weight of mold + wet soil (grams).
- 13. Weight of mold (grams).
- 14. Weight of wet soil (12 - 13) (grams).
- 15. Wet unit weight (pcf).
- 16. Tare number (run 1, column 1).
- a. Weight of tare = wet soil (grams).
- b. Weight of tare + dry soil (grams).
- c. Weight of water (Ww) (a - b) (grams).
- d. Weight of tare (grams).
- e. Weight of dry soil (Ws) (grams) (b - d).
- f. Water content (w = Ws/Ws x 100) (percent).
- 16. Tare number (run 1, column 2).
Order of completion: identification block first, substantive entries second, certification and signature last. The blank is laid out in that sequence and the sequence is not arbitrary — later entries often depend on data established in the header.
The current edition is not stated. Superseded editions of DD forms are frequently rejected at the receiving office, since Department-wide forms change centrally and older layouts lose their field correspondence. Edition date appears in the lower corner of the printed blank.
Guidance for specific entries sits on the form face and in not stated; the directive is authoritative where the two do not agree.
The completed document moves to the office named in not stated or in local guidance. A retained copy is conventional practice.
Associated forms are traced by number within the series. Because the DD sequence is common to all military departments, no service qualifier is needed to identify a referenced form.
Some procedures pair a DD form with a service form. The two numbering systems are separate — service forms answer to a service proponent, DD forms to not stated or another Department office — and a matching number in each system means nothing.
Forms are reissued for several reasons: directive revision, changed data requirements, updated notice language. Confirming not stated at the moment of download covers the risk.
Scope of this page: distribution of a published form and description of its contents. It offers no legal guidance and no assurance regarding any particular submission. Direct procedural questions to not stated, to the servicing personnel office, or to the office designated in not stated.
Questions and answers
- What is DD Form 1210?
- DD Form 1210, Laboratory Compaction Characteristics of Soil (Compaction Test), December 1999
- Which edition is current?
- Not stated by the publisher
- Who is responsible for this form?
- Not stated
- In which formats can it be downloaded?