IN SITU HORIZONTAL STRESS FROM PRESSUREMETER TESTS
The self-boring pressuremeter test represents a promising method to evaluate the in situ horizontal stress, provided one carefully selects and controls the installation procedures appropriate to the soil investigated. The paper presents the interpretation of the in situ horizontal stress from 21 self-boring pressuremeter tests in two Norwegian marine clay deposits. Eight different methods of data interpretation were compared. "Good quality" pressuremeter curves (i.e. monotonically increasing pressure, without inflection point) led to a prediction of horizontal stress within 5 to 10% of the stress believed the true in situ stress. The satisfactory prediction of in situ horizontal stress is especially significant since a reliable "initial pressure" (Po) is absolutely essential for derivation of undrained shear strength and shear modulus from the pressuremeter expansion curve.
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Corporate Authors:
Norwegian Geotechnical Institute
P.O. Box 40 Tasen
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Authors:
- Lacasse, S
- Lunne, T
- Publication Date: 1983
Media Info
- Features: Figures; References; Tables;
- Pagination: p. 1
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Serial:
- Norwegian Geotechnical Institute Publication
- Issue Number: 146
- Publisher: Norwegian Geotechnical Institute
- ISSN: 0078-1193
Subject/Index Terms
- TRT Terms: Field tests; Marine clays; Pressure gages; Shear modulus; Stresses; Undrained shear strength
- Old TRIS Terms: Horizontal stresses; Insitu methods
- Subject Areas: Geotechnology; Highways; I42: Soil Mechanics;
Filing Info
- Accession Number: 00384753
- Record Type: Publication
- Files: TRIS
- Created Date: May 30 1984 12:00AM