What is a site investigation?

Before the engineer can design a foundation intelligently, he must have a reasonably accurate conception of the physical properties and arrangement of the underlying…

For designing shallow foundations, it is necessary to know the bearing capacity of soil at the desired depth. The plate load test is performed on-site to determine the ultimate bearing capacity o…

The behavior of fine-grained cohesive soil depends on its mineral composition, water content, degree of saturation, and structure. In particular, the water content has always been considered an i…

Arthur Casagrande developed a standard device for the determination of liquid limit suggesting that at the water content of liquid limit a clay soil has a shear strength of approximately 2.5 kPa.…

California bearing ratio test is one of the soil strength evaluation tests. In this test, the relative strength of a soil specimen is measured with respect to the standard sample.

In this…