Typically I only provided boring profiles for directional drilling. Unconfined compressive strengths in rock can be useful for drill bit selection but in generally sandy granular bit selection is not an issue for the contractor. The presence of any oversized cobbles as mentioned by Mad mike is...
I am working on a pipeline project which includes the use of thrust blocks for lateral resistance and am providing capacities per unit depth. Eg. 160 psf per foot of embedment at midpoint height of the thrust block. My question is we limit the lateral resistance of the soil at a certain depth...
