The Pressuremeter

by Jean-Louis Briaud

Overview

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 relative increase in cavity radius are obtained and give an in situ stress strain curve. The pressuremeter test is repeated at various depths in order to obtain profiles of soil parameters.

The design applications of the preboring pressuremeter test include: shallow foundations under vertical loads, deep foundations under vertical and horizontal loads, ground anchors, cantilever drilled shaft walls and anchored bulkheads, pavements, stone columns, ground improvement and compaction control.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781351409483
Publisher:	CRC Press
Publication date:	07/16/2019
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	336
File size:	31 MB
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About the Author

Jean-Louis Briaud

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.

Editorial Reviews

The pressuremeter test consists of placing a cylindrical probe in the ground and expanding the probe to pressurize soil or rock horizontally. The pressure on the soil and the relative increase in cavity radius are obtained and give an in situ stress strain curve; repeated at various depths, the test profiles soil parameters. This book provides guidelines for the proper use of the pressuremeter. Extensive references. No index. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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