Civil Engineering

To investigate the use of cone penetrometer data in pile design, Eslami and Fellenius (1997)…

Robertson (1990) proposed a development of the Robertson et al. (1986) profiling chart, shown in…

Vos (1982) suggested using the electrical cone penetrometer for Dutch soils to identify soil types…

Schmertmann (1978) proposed the soil profiling chart shown in Fig. 2.4A. The chart is based…

Begemann (1965) Begemann (1965) pioneered soil profiling from the CPT, showing that, while coarse-grained soils…

Introduction Design of foundations presupposes that the soil conditions (profile and parameters) at the site…

A small diameter footing, of about 1 metre width, can normally be assumed to distribute…

The assumption of ideally elastic response produces an exaggerated radial stress distribution near the location…

Load applied to the surface of a body distributes into the body over a successively…

As mentioned, effective stress is the total stress minus the pore pressure (the water pressure…