Index Properties Of Soils:
Index Properties Of Soils:
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My Kind greetings,
Recently developments in geotechnical processes and soil machanics now demands the engineers to dig-deep into soil testing, boring and inspections especially before, during and post construction activities. These tests are vital as the aids both the geotechnical and structural engineers in their designs and judgement.
Among these tests are: Liquid Limits (LL),Plastic Limits (PL), Plastic Index (PI), Compaction, Compressibility, Settlement,Grading/Seive Analysis among range of other standard tests conducted on soils and rocks in other to determine their engineering behaviours.
To this end, changes in the environments, construction methods and procedures,codes/standards (eg EUROCODES),
lab testings etc. now demands the geotechnical to carry out 'modern' testing on soils and rocks...
Can anyone throw more light on these ?
Enjoy !
Recently developments in geotechnical processes and soil machanics now demands the engineers to dig-deep into soil testing, boring and inspections especially before, during and post construction activities. These tests are vital as the aids both the geotechnical and structural engineers in their designs and judgement.
Among these tests are: Liquid Limits (LL),Plastic Limits (PL), Plastic Index (PI), Compaction, Compressibility, Settlement,Grading/Seive Analysis among range of other standard tests conducted on soils and rocks in other to determine their engineering behaviours.
To this end, changes in the environments, construction methods and procedures,codes/standards (eg EUROCODES),
lab testings etc. now demands the geotechnical to carry out 'modern' testing on soils and rocks...
Can anyone throw more light on these ?
Enjoy !
nurhforward, Gitto International.





RE: Index Properties Of Soils:
as far as "modern", i think the exploration/testing has been somewhat unchanged for a while (but with obvious revisions). i would say that due new enforcement of the international building codes, owners are now being forced to have certain exploration/testing performed. i always think it's ironic that it's so hard to save people from themselves sometimes.
RE: Index Properties Of Soils:
As muscog says - it is fine for the codes to push "testing" or whatever else they want to push (like forcing bearing capacity computations even though everyone knows it is the serviceabilty limits - not the ultimate that govern most cases) - but interestingly, the codes don't give prescriptive costs that are to be paid for these services!!! Tell me how a residential homeowner will want to pay thousands for fancy tests - when all he wants to know is that the site is safe to build on - a few extra cm on the size of the footing for his project is still well cheaper than what the codes seem to want to push.