soil exploration

A building is proposed in an area having thick deposit of silty clay. The water table is at the ground surface. The saturated unit weight of soil is 18 kN/m$^3$ and unit weight of...

A standard penetration test (SPT) was carried out at a location by using a manually operated hammer dropping system with 50% efficiency. The recorded SPT value at a particular dept...

The inside diameter of a sampler tube is 50 mm. The inside diameter of the cutting edge is kept such that the Inside Clearance Ratio (ICR) is 1.0% to minimize the friction on the s...