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bearing capacity with lightweight dynamic cone penetrometer(DIN 4094)

Thread starter dyawosei
Start date Feb 17, 2014

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Feb 17, 2014

dyawosei

Geotechnical

I want to use a German type lightweight dynamic cone penetrometer(DIN 4094)to determine the allowable bearing capacity as part of a ground investigation. I remember sometime ago I read that ten times the N10 value gives the allowable bearing capacity in kPa.Can somebody confirm this or give me the correct relationship between the two parameters?