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  1. roadrunner13

    Terzaghi’s Bearing Capacity Factor - Ng V. 2.0

    Regarding thread256-468265 : mar2805, the formula you are using also comes from Terzaghi's book, p. 124. The answer to your inquiry is detailed in the book Bowles Foundation Analysis and Design, p. 222 & around it. The book has a very comprehensive explanation, so I won't repeat it here...
  2. roadrunner13

    Pushing clutch help

    Hello, I am a civil engineer and I have several threads posted in the geotechnical forum, so I am not an automotive engineer or know anything about the subject, but I have a problem and I thought somebody in this forum could suggest something useful to solve it. I have a 2002 Dodge Stratus with...
  3. roadrunner13

    Locate pvc water pipes & concrete sewage pipes

    Does anyone know how to locate buried pvc water pipes or sewage concrete pipes underground so to not hit them when excavating with a backhoe? GPR could be useful, but besides being expensive, I understand it doesn't work on clayely or moist soils. Last time I checked, most soils here are clays...
  4. roadrunner13

    How do you saturate soil specimens

    How do you saturate soil specimens for UU triaxial testing or UCS? Assuming they are partially saturated. "There is nothing in the desert, and no man needs nothing."
  5. roadrunner13

    Comprehensive geotechnical forensics book.

    Has anyone read a very comprehensive book about geotechnical failures that have happened in the recent, real world? Common failures, rare failures, failures the regular geotechnical books don't say nothing about, structural failures blamed wrongfully to the soil, sinkholes, cases like the...
  6. roadrunner13

    Solving the confusion on Bowles equation for swelling pressure

    Hello everybody. I am writing this post related to the thread158-157942. in which there is a confusion about the sum of two quantities on the equation for correlating LL, w and density to the swelling pressure of the soil, which appears on Bowles Foundation analysis and design 5th. edition. A...
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    Experience with the saw chain for cube samples

    Some years ago, I found a very interesting publication in the ASTM website. It was about the use of a chainsaw for obtaining undisturbed cubic samples of soil for triaxial testing. It interested me, because obtaining such samples is very labor and time consuming and I've always searched for...
  8. roadrunner13

    Clay stratum N SPT > 50 settlement

    Hello, I am new to the forum, but I've had my geotechnical lab for several years now. I have a doubt which I hope someone can solve: Can a clay stratum with N SPT > 50 be considered incompressible regarding to consolidation settlement? Thanx beforehand.

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