The pressuremeter / Jean-Louis Briaud.
This classic title deals presents all one needs to know about pressuremeter test, a soil and rock test used in civil engineering. It consists of placing a cylindrical probe in the ground and expanding the probe to pressurize the soil or the rock horizontally. The pressure on the soil and the relativ...
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Leiden, Netherlands :
A.A. Balkema,
2005.
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Table of Contents:
- Unit Conversions, Introduction, Various types of equipment, Calibration of the equipment, Preparing the borehole, Running the test, Theoretical background, Data reduction and PMT soil paraemters, Other soil parameters and comparisons, Design of the shallow foundations, Design of veritically loaded piles, Design of horizontally loaded piles, Design of retaining walls, Design of pressure grouted anchors, Design of pavements, Other applciations, Advantages, disadvantages and costs.