For more important projects (e.g., bridges, retaining walls, culverts, etc.), I require my client's surveyor to go out and survey my borings. However, we do not have that luxury on smaller, less elevation critical projects (e.g., mass grading, small buildings, etc.).
I would still like...
I'm not interested in calculating the liquefaction induced settlement in each liquefiable layer. My interest is in predicting/estimating how much that cumulative settlement will be manifested at the surface. Intuition tells me that some of the non-liquefiable material (or crust) will bridge over...
