1. Koni Penetrasyon Deneyi Ölçümlerinde Gelişmeler.
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Sert, Sedat, Özocak, Aşkın, and Bol, Ertan
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CONE penetration tests , *PENETROMETERS , *VELOCITY , *ELECTRIC conductivity , *ELECTRICAL conductivity measurement , *POLLUTANTS - Abstract
The cone penetration test (CPT) has been used for a long time as a reliable in situ test method for rapid and economical site characterization. In the early 1930's in the Netherlands, the CPT was developed as a mechanical penetrometer to determine the capacity of piles in sands. Electrical cones were first developed around the early 1960's, but came more common in the 1980's when pore pressure measurements were included (CPTu). Today, it has been used increasingly in respect to improving technology to determine some other parameters (ie: chemical properties of water, electrical resistivity, pH, temperature, soil contaminants) in addition to geotechnical properties of soils and detecting soil stratigraphy. The CPT involves pushing a 3.5 cm diameter cone with apex angle of 60° through the underlying soil at a rate of 2 cm/sec while recording tip resistance (qc), side friction (fs), pore pressure (u2) and inclination simultaneously and continuously. The CPT has some advantages, such as low cost, a time saving procedure, continuous recording, high accuracy and repeatability, automatic data logging and having no human effect. In this paper, some of the recent advances in CPT have been given and an example calculation of shear wave velocity with SCPTU has been introduced. The CPT data has been collected using the 200 kN acoustic tracked CPTu system owned and operated by Sakarya University. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Published
- 2014