Location
St. Louis, Missouri
Presentation Date
27 Apr 1981, 2:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Abstract
A method has been developed to calculate soil shear strengths from the measured decelerations of a free-fall penetrator. The method is easy to apply, and appears to yield accurate estimates of in-situ soil strength over a wide variety of soil conditions, and for many different sizes and weights of penetrators. For gassy and/or sensitive soils, the method may yield strength values more accurate than those determined by conventional boring, sampling, and laboratory testing.
Department(s)
Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering
Meeting Name
1st International Conference on Recent Advances in Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering and Soil Dynamics
Publisher
University of Missouri--Rolla
Document Version
Final Version
Rights
© 1981 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
McNeill, R. L. and Foster, A. D., "Estimation of In-Situ Clay Strengths Using Marine Sediment Penetrators" (1981). International Conferences on Recent Advances in Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering and Soil Dynamics. 7.
https://scholarsmine.mst.edu/icrageesd/01icrageesd/session01b/7
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Estimation of In-Situ Clay Strengths Using Marine Sediment Penetrators
St. Louis, Missouri
A method has been developed to calculate soil shear strengths from the measured decelerations of a free-fall penetrator. The method is easy to apply, and appears to yield accurate estimates of in-situ soil strength over a wide variety of soil conditions, and for many different sizes and weights of penetrators. For gassy and/or sensitive soils, the method may yield strength values more accurate than those determined by conventional boring, sampling, and laboratory testing.
