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Videos

  • SPT Video: Introduction to Soil Drilling & Sampling (and standard penetration testing & split-barrel drive sampling of soils):

    Contact:
    Prof. Ross Boulanger
    University of California-Davis
    Civil & Environmental Engrg.
    Davis, CA 95616
    Fax: 530-752-7872    		 Jason DeJong
    Georgia Institute of Technology
    Civil & Env. Engineering
    Mason Building
    Atlanta, GA 30332-0355
    Fax: 404-894-2281
  • CPT Video: Cone Penetrometer System (Use of CPT by cone truck for stratigraphy & groundwater studies).

  • CPT Video: Mini-Cone Penetration Testing (a miniature electronic cone penetrometer system with continuous uncoiling rod and built in global positioning system):

  • PMT Video: Pressuremeter Testing

  • CPT Video: Self-anchoring penetrometer and rotary rig (one unit for CPT and SPT/drilling in one-man operation).

  • CPT video on hydraulic systems and cone penetrometers

      Contact:
      Mr. Engbert Welling
      Director
      A.P. van den Berg B.V.
      Ijzerweg 4
      P.O. Box 68
      8440 AB Heerenveen, The NETHERLANDS
      Phone: +31 513 63 1355
      Fax: +31 513 63 1212
      Email: apb@apvdberg.nl
  • Video: BOREHOLE DRILLING, produced by Univ. of Sheffield. For info, see http://www.shef.ac.uk/~learnmed/catalogue/civeng.htm.

    CDs

  • GEOPHYSICS CD: A new Compact Disc ROM for Windows 95/98 is titled "Applications of Geophysics in Environmental Investigations". This is a practical guide to applications of Geophysics in field investigations. The book will be able to be ordered directly from the Publisher Matrix Multimedia at educational/retail pricing, or at retail rates from the distributor EEGS. For educational pricing on orders of 20 or more, the price for educational use is $60.00 US (includes shipping and taxes for point of purchase for shipping to the US or Canada). For single orders, the price for a registered student or professor to direct buy from the Publisher is $68.00 US (includes taxes for point of purchase and shipping to Canada or the US). Retail pricing is 90.00 US.

    Websites

  • CPT WEBSITE: An extremely valuable resource for all coneheads and CPT wannabees is the website covering CONE PENETRATION TESTING and important links maintained by Dr. Rick Olsen.

  • Vision CPT WEBSITE: (VisCPT) Special cone penetrometer with sapphire window and video camera using digital image analysis to sort particle sizes and soil classification.



  • Georgia Tech GeoLinks



    IMPORTANT NOTE:

    The above is merely a listing of existing educational or commercial items on the topic of in-situ testing and site characterization, compiled after talking to Dr. Mehmet Tumay (Louisiana State University); Dr. Roman Hryciw (University of Michigan); Dr. Richard Finno (Northwestern University); Dr. Bill Kovacs (University of Rhode Island); Dr. Sandy Houston (Arizona State University), as well as soliciting responses from many other colleagues across the U.S. No permission and/or endorsement are implied. No rights to copying or distribution are intended nor offered by this announcement.

    Respectfully compiled by:

    List of Publications and Proceedings from Symposia & Conferences Related to Site Characterization
    (in chronological order):

      European Symposium on Penetration Testing (ESOPT-1, 1974), published by the Swedish Geotechnical Society, Stockholm.

      In-Situ Measurement of Soil Properties (1975), Vols. I and II, ASCE, North Carolina State Univ., held at Raleigh, NC.

      Dynamic Geotechnical Testing (1978), Special Technical Publication No. 654, American Society for Testing & Materials, West Conshohocken, Pennsylvania

      First International Symposium on Pressuremeter Testing (ISP1, 1982), in Paris, France.

      Cone Penetration Testing and Experience (1981), Session Proceedings at ASCE National Convention, St. Louis, Missouri; published by American Society of Civil Engineers, Reston, Virginia.

      European Symposium on Penetration Testing (ESOPT-2, 1982), held in Amsterdam, The Netherlands; published as Penetration Testing, A.A. Balkema, Rotterdam.

      Second International Symposium on Pressuremeter Testing (ISP2, 1986) held in College Station, Texas, USA; published as The Pressuremeter and Its Marine Applications, Special Technical Publication No. 950, American Society for Testing & Materials, West Conshohocken, Pennsylvania.

      Use of In-Situ Tests in Geotechnical Engineering (In-Situ '86), held in Blacksburg, Virginia, USA; published as Geotechnical Specialty Publication No. 6, American Society of Civil Engineers, Reston, Virginia, 1986.

      Vane Shear Strength Testing in Soils: Field & Laboratory Studies (1987), Special Technical Publication No. 1014, American Society for Testing & Materials, West Conshohocken, Pennsylvania.

      Proceedings of the Geotechnology Conference on Penetration Testing in the UK, Birmingham (1988); published as Penetration Testing in the U.K., Thomas Telford, London.

      First International Symposium on Penetration Testing (ISOPT-1, 1988) held in Orlando, Florida, USA; published as Penetration Testing 1988 by A.A. Balkema, Rotterdam..

      Third International Symposium on Pressuremeter Testing (ISP3, 1990) in Oxford, UK; published as Pressuremeters by Thomas Telford and the British Geotechnical Society, London.

      Proceedings of the First International Conference on Calibration Chamber Testing (ISOCCT-1, 1991), Potsdam, New York; published as Calibration Chamber Testing, Elsevier, New York.

      Dynamic Geotechnical Testing II (1994), Special Technical Publication No. 1213, American Society for Testing & Materials, West Conshohocken, Pennsylvania

      Fourth International Symposium on Pressuremeters (ISP4, 1995) held in Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada; published as The Pressuremeter and Its New Avenues by A.A. Balkema, Rotterdam.

      International Symposium on Cone Penetration Testing (CPT'95), held in Linkoping, Sweden; published by the Swedish Geotechnical Society, Report 3:95, 1995, 3 volumes.

      Advances in Site Investigation Practice (1995), Proceedings conf. in London, ed. by C. Craig, Thomas Telford, U.K., 951 p.

      Cone Penetration Testing in Geotechnical Practice (1997). by Tom Lunne, Norwegian Geotechnical Institute, Oslo, Norway; Peter Robertson, Univ. of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada; and John Powell, Building Research Establishment, UK; published by Blackie Academic, UK/Thomson Professional Publishers, Florence, KY.

      Geotechnical Site Characterization (1998), vol. 1 and 2 (Proceedings, First Intl. Conf. on Site Characterization, ISC'98, Atlanta), ed. by P.K. Robertson & P.W. Mayne, A.A. Balkema Publishers, Rotterdam, 1555 p.




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