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Geotechnical News June 2011
Computing in Geotechnical Engineering
Alireza Afkhami
Saeed Otufat-Shamsi
Among the geotechnical in-situ tests,
Cone Penetration Test provides a large
dataset which needs to be interpreted
carefully by geotechnical engineers.
During last decades, many researchers
have been carried out on Cone
Penetration Test in order to provide
empirical relations between CPT data
and the engineering properties of soil
layers.
During this test, the soil ahead and
behind the cone will influence tip re-
sistance (qc); hence affecting the soil
behavior type (particularly during the
transition between two significantly
different soil types such as clay and
sand). In this article, Dr Robertson
suggests an SBT index (Ic)-based ap-
proach to identify and remove transi-
tion zones in CPT dataset.
We would like to hear more about
this concept and may be different point
of views. Please send your technical
articles to
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editor at Saeed@NovoTechSoftware.
com. Normal length is 2-4 pages in the
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News is principally looking for articles
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