DYNAMIC PROBING AND ITS USE IN CLAY SOILS

The Building Research Establishment (BRE) has carried out a programme of research to evaluate the potential of dynamic probing as an economical, repeatable and operator insensitive test for profiling and assessing soil properties. This paper describes the dynamic probing test procedure, equipment specifications and the treatment of results. Dynamic probing was carried out at 10 clay soil test bed sites, 6 in the UK and 4 in Norway, to cover a reasonably wide range of undrained shear strengths and plasticities. Correlations between dynamic probing data and undrained shear strength as well as the results from Standard Penetration Test and static cone penetrometer tests have been obtained and, potentially, will allow wider application of dynamic probing to ground investigation. (A) For the covering abstract see IRRD 883023.

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  • English

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  • Features: References;
  • Pagination: p. 383-95

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Filing Info

  • Accession Number: 00729278
  • Record Type: Publication
  • Source Agency: Transport Research Laboratory
  • ISBN: 0-7277-2513-0
  • Files: ITRD
  • Created Date: Dec 12 1996 12:00AM