coneboy
Geotechnical
- Oct 20, 2001
- 79
Greetings all.
I would appreciate some feed back regarding what testing procedure you would use for determining the soil strength and OCR for a soft silt/clay.
Personally, I have had good experiences using the NKt procedure and the electric cone. Schmertman's procedure using a (Su/overburden stress) value for NC soils from a plasticity index also seems to give good correlations. If my project budget will permit, I would also choose a few quick vane tests.
In addition, I have never been a big fan of lab consolidation tests as corrections for sample disturbances can vary, especially in soft, NC soils.
Thanks for the feed back.
I would appreciate some feed back regarding what testing procedure you would use for determining the soil strength and OCR for a soft silt/clay.
Personally, I have had good experiences using the NKt procedure and the electric cone. Schmertman's procedure using a (Su/overburden stress) value for NC soils from a plasticity index also seems to give good correlations. If my project budget will permit, I would also choose a few quick vane tests.
In addition, I have never been a big fan of lab consolidation tests as corrections for sample disturbances can vary, especially in soft, NC soils.
Thanks for the feed back.