The Marine Corps has recently purchased a new "Soils Testing Kit" which includes a Dual Mass-Dynamic Cone Penetronemeter. This kit also includes a Vertec Data Acquisition System with a Soil Moisture Probe. It is awesome equipment which works well for us and our mission which is of an expeditionary nature (structure design life of six months to two years). One of the down sides is that many of our FM's and TM's which predate the use of the DCP refer to the soils bearing capacity in pounds per square foot or tons psf.
As a means to make a quick correlation between the two I (and I am not a college trained Engineer by no means) believe that we can take the 3000psi which is the standard effort used in a CBR test and multiply it times the CBR expressed as a percent to arrive a soils strength per squard inch and doing the relative converstion to lbs/psf or tons/psf. Keeping in mind the expeditionary nature of our work, is this feasible?
As a means to make a quick correlation between the two I (and I am not a college trained Engineer by no means) believe that we can take the 3000psi which is the standard effort used in a CBR test and multiply it times the CBR expressed as a percent to arrive a soils strength per squard inch and doing the relative converstion to lbs/psf or tons/psf. Keeping in mind the expeditionary nature of our work, is this feasible?
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