CORRELATING PHYSICAL AND MECHANICAL PROPERTIES OF SOIL WITH DYNAMIC PENETRATION TESTS

Abstract

Penetration testing is one of the indirect in-situ testing techniques that used to characterize soil. Dynamic probing has been used as an alternative to the standard penetration test (SPT). Different types of dynamic probing had been used in the literature depending on to the mass and the energy used of the hammering. This study presents a statistical study to investigate the possibility of utilizing the dynamic cone penetration test to evaluate the shear strength parameters of cohesive and non-cohesive soils.