Location
New York, New York
Date
17 Apr 2004, 10:30am - 12:30pm
Abstract
A series of cone penetration test were conducted in the southeast of Tehran to assess the liquefaction potential in this area. At the same time, after sounding of each cone penetration test, soil samples were also taken from different depths of boreholes to visually verify the soil classification. Seventy four samples from twenty boreholes were taken and their soil characteristics were obtained. To classify the soil layers, using recorded data, two various soil behaviour classification charts proposed by Robertson and Wride (1988), and Marr (1981) were examined which for some cases different results were obtained. In this paper validity of these procedures are investigated and discussed in details. These soil classification methods in some cases give a good results but there is a different between those charts and observed soil classification, particularly when the soil contain fines and therefore some modification must be applied.
Department(s)
Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering
Meeting Name
5th Conference of the International Conference on Case Histories in Geotechnical Engineering
Publisher
University of Missouri--Rolla
Document Version
Final Version
Rights
© 2004 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
Baziar, M. H.; Esna-Ashari, M.; and Zadeh, H. Saleh, "Comparison of Soil Classification Methods Using CPT Results" (2004). International Conference on Case Histories in Geotechnical Engineering. 4.
https://scholarsmine.mst.edu/icchge/5icchge/session03/4
Comparison of Soil Classification Methods Using CPT Results
New York, New York
A series of cone penetration test were conducted in the southeast of Tehran to assess the liquefaction potential in this area. At the same time, after sounding of each cone penetration test, soil samples were also taken from different depths of boreholes to visually verify the soil classification. Seventy four samples from twenty boreholes were taken and their soil characteristics were obtained. To classify the soil layers, using recorded data, two various soil behaviour classification charts proposed by Robertson and Wride (1988), and Marr (1981) were examined which for some cases different results were obtained. In this paper validity of these procedures are investigated and discussed in details. These soil classification methods in some cases give a good results but there is a different between those charts and observed soil classification, particularly when the soil contain fines and therefore some modification must be applied.
