Proceedings of a Symposium on Site Exploration in Soft Ground Using In Situ Techniques

Download or read book Proceedings of a Symposium on Site Exploration in Soft Ground Using In Situ Techniques written by and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume contains the information presented at the "Symposium on Site Exploration in Soft Ground Using In Situ Techniques". The devices considered include the dilatometer, the vane shear, the borehole shear, and the static cone penetrometer. The specific objective was to review, summarize, and document research conducted on these devices and to present case history studies in which each device was used to determine the engineering soil properties and obtain design criteria.