3" OD split spoon sampler
3" OD split spoon sampler
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Have you ever used this sampler? It has 3-6" long sleeves inside that collect the sample. It has some corrections to make the N value equivalent to the standard 2" split spoon. In what type of soils do you use this 3" sampler? Can the samples collected in the sleeves be tested for direct or triaxial tests?
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We are using a 140 pounds hammer so we can switch to the standard split spoon sampler. Yeah, I have to do a literature review on how to use the data from the 3" sampler. I heard the Professor Sowers made some correlations for this sampler so I will check it. Thanks again.
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I'm not sure that Sowers did anything with the 3" dia. sampler. He did extensive work with the small, dynamic cone penetrometer, commonly referred to as the Sowers Penetrometer. This is a hand-held, DCP that is portable and has good correlation with SPT. I spent 18 years at Law Engineering when Sowers was there, so we were all familiar with the Sowers DCP amd I'm fairly sure each branch office had one! I've used it quite a few times over the years.
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We always used a 300-pound, downhole, "Jar" hammer. We always used mud-rotary.
Wasn't an engineer at that time. Now, I'd wonder about sample disturbance effects on Su or 1D testing.
We just don't see these in Virginia.
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