Alternative Title
Paper No. 1.16
Location
St. Louis, Missouri
Date
10 Mar 1998, 9:00 am - 12:00 pm
Abstract
Site investigation is a scientific process, its main objective being to provide definite values of soil properties and parameters for the foundation design and construction engineer, so that an economic and safe design can be prepared. For many years, plate loading tests have been used and yield dependable information. Geotechnical investigations of sands and sandy soils invariably involve the use of standard penetration tests (SPT) but the test results are apt to be variously interpreted with respect to foundation analysis. This paper attempts to set out a rational approach for the interpretation of the field N-values upon which the allowable soil pressure of cohesionless soils are normally predicted. The validity of Peck, Hanson & Thornburn (1974)'s SPT-correction method and allowable soil pressure chart are analysed and a new SPT-correction method and chart have been propounded in the background of a digest of available data and literature extent on the subject.
Department(s)
Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering
Meeting Name
4th Conference of the International Conference on Case Histories in Geotechnical Engineering
Publisher
University of Missouri--Rolla
Document Version
Final Version
Rights
© 1998 University of Missouri--Rolla, All rights reserved.
Creative Commons Licensing
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 License.
Document Type
Article - Conference proceedings
File Type
text
Language
English
Recommended Citation
Tolia, D. S., "Validity of Peck, Hanson and Thornburn's SPT Correction Method and Soil Pressure Chart" (1998). International Conference on Case Histories in Geotechnical Engineering. 66.
https://scholarsmine.mst.edu/icchge/4icchge/4icchge-session01/66
Validity of Peck, Hanson and Thornburn's SPT Correction Method and Soil Pressure Chart
St. Louis, Missouri
Site investigation is a scientific process, its main objective being to provide definite values of soil properties and parameters for the foundation design and construction engineer, so that an economic and safe design can be prepared. For many years, plate loading tests have been used and yield dependable information. Geotechnical investigations of sands and sandy soils invariably involve the use of standard penetration tests (SPT) but the test results are apt to be variously interpreted with respect to foundation analysis. This paper attempts to set out a rational approach for the interpretation of the field N-values upon which the allowable soil pressure of cohesionless soils are normally predicted. The validity of Peck, Hanson & Thornburn (1974)'s SPT-correction method and allowable soil pressure chart are analysed and a new SPT-correction method and chart have been propounded in the background of a digest of available data and literature extent on the subject.
