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Geotechnical Investigation
- Methods and Evaluation with Notes on Maintenance -
Self introduction
Target (audience): government officers
engaged in planning, design, construction,
and maintenance of (road) bridges, with
some or little knowledge of geotechnical
engineering and investigations
A/E
Consultant
Geotechnical
Consultant
Soil investigation
companies
Field work
Less
Raw
information
Office work
engineering
education
More
Interpretation
application
Construction
companies
terminology
Subsurface
investigations
Soil investigation
Geotechnical
investigation
Soil survey
Site investigation
Site survey
schedule
Morning 10:00 12:30
10:10-11:10 strategic consideration of geotechnical
investigation planning
11:20-12:30 items of investigation
Foundation design
We must understand:
Load from superstructure
Ground conditions
Geometry (geology, layers)
Property (strength, compressibility, permeability)
Geological maps
Topographical maps
Vegetation maps
Satellite photos
Borehole information systems
Engineering judgment
We have to conclude the investigation at a certain
point. However, we are not sure if the information
collected is correct and sufficient. The quantity of
data obtained from the soil investigation is usually
not as sufficient as to allow us to statistically
determine the properties of every part of the ground.
Do you worry if the soil property may be different at
10m away from a borehole?
Answer: we use engineering judgment (a good guess
or professional guess) with imagination of the ground
condition based on scarce data.