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How do the geotechs come up with the one liners on site class? Recently I came up with a program that is made available to the public by USGS to determine the site class and also to calculate the basic design parameters. I am yet to compare with site specific data in our area.
I am much...
I need some assistance with designing a geotechnical investigation per IBC-2006 or IBC-2009. The area where I am having problems with is collecting data for seismic design category. From what I understood, the easiest way to classify a site is by conducting a SPT (Table 1613.5.2). If this is...