Test to Determine Soil Bearing Capacity
Test to Determine Soil Bearing Capacity
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Hello All,
I am starting my career as an EIT (mostly structural) but I worked as a carpenter for 10 years. I know when I used to pour wall footings, a testing agency would send a guy out with a steel rod and like a 35-45 pound weight which impacted that rod from a very specific height. He counted the number of blows and that was then used to determine the allowable soil bearing capacity. What is the name of that test? I thought the guys in the field called it a niece-bar test (spelling?), but I can't find any such test on the internet.
Thanks for your help!
I am starting my career as an EIT (mostly structural) but I worked as a carpenter for 10 years. I know when I used to pour wall footings, a testing agency would send a guy out with a steel rod and like a 35-45 pound weight which impacted that rod from a very specific height. He counted the number of blows and that was then used to determine the allowable soil bearing capacity. What is the name of that test? I thought the guys in the field called it a niece-bar test (spelling?), but I can't find any such test on the internet.
Thanks for your help!






RE: Test to Determine Soil Bearing Capacity
Dynamic Cone Penetrometer
RE: Test to Determine Soil Bearing Capacity
RE: Test to Determine Soil Bearing Capacity
RE: Test to Determine Soil Bearing Capacity
RE: Test to Determine Soil Bearing Capacity
RE: Test to Determine Soil Bearing Capacity
RE: Test to Determine Soil Bearing Capacity
RE: Test to Determine Soil Bearing Capacity
There are occasions where a geotech study will use these devices but generally as a last resort due to limited access or on projects that don't have much load... but if done in a geotech study that would have occurred well before your presence on the site as a contractor
RE: Test to Determine Soil Bearing Capacity
RE: Test to Determine Soil Bearing Capacity
he stood behind it so that is what I ran with on my design. Fortunately, my loads were only in the 750 psf range so I did not lose too much sleep.