The massive construction in poor lands has encouraged engineers to use deep foundations in order to transfer superstructure loads to the subsoil. Since soil excavation, sampling, and laboratory testing as a part of site investigation are relatively difficult, in-situ tests such as cone penetration test (CPT) as a very informative test may be recommended. The CPT has been widely used in engineer...

Commercial cone penetration testing (CPT) equipment was adapted to allow penetrative testing in hard polar firn to depths of 10m. The apparatus is hydraulically driven, rate-controllable and able to penetrate firn with a resistance of 10MPa. It can be mounted on many types of typical polar vehicles, requiring connection to only hydraulics and 12V electricity. Data recorded include both cone tip...

Soils at critical state are like a visco-plastic fluids, which will flow for applied stresses greater than the critical state (CS) shear strength. Shear viscosity is a key parameter to understand the post-failure flow response of soils in geotechnical applications such as landslides, jacked piles and cone penetrometers. Viscosity of soil has been investigated for water contents greater than the...

ters to characterize both agricultural and rangeland A DYNAMIC CONE PENETROMETER soils, however, has been limited by concerns about (i) FOR MEASURING SOIL instrument cost, (ii) measurement repeatability, (iii) limited ranges of soil resistance that can be measured by PENETRATION RESISTANCE a single penetrometer, and (iv) difficulties in comparing Jeffrey E. Herrick* and Tim L. Jones data collec...

Frameworks for estimating soil properties from CPT penetration resistances must account for the effects of overburden stress on both the penetration resistance and the soil property of interest, including how such effects vary with soil type. For example, common procedures for estimating the liquefaction resistance of sands include functional terms that account for the effect of overburden stre...

Abstract Central Sulawesi Province is one of the areas in Indonesia that prone to large earthquakes. Balaroa, Petobo, and Sibalaya were among most fatalities damaged facilities infrastructure due earthquake on September 28th 2018. Around Balaroa Village, besides huge damages Perumnas Housing, area around housing was also affected, for example Jamur, Kelor, Labu streets, many houses buildings da...