Hi,
We are living in arid area where summer temperatue rises up to 40 degree cengrade. During construction of road after laying the layers and compacted at optimum moisture content the next day you find the moisture content is very low especially if materials are non plastic.(eg say omc is 10%...
During my geotechnical carrier I am always having a problem of estimating an allowable bearing capacity on highly fractured, highly to moderately weathered rock where RQD is 0 and no sample for UCS or Point Load Test. Some times I dwell in British Standard BS8004:1986 to derive the bearing...