Correlation between cone penetration test and bearing capacity for shallow foundation

The Cone Penetration Test (CPT) is a simple and versatile test that is becoming more popular in Malaysia for soft clay and fine to medium coarse sand. It can be used as a direct method to determine the soil bearing capacity for a foundation. Analyses were carried out on the CPT data from local proje...

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Main Author: Ahmad, Mazlan
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Published: 2007
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spelling my-utm-ep.63962018-08-26T04:45:25Z Correlation between cone penetration test and bearing capacity for shallow foundation 2007-04 Ahmad, Mazlan TA Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General) The Cone Penetration Test (CPT) is a simple and versatile test that is becoming more popular in Malaysia for soft clay and fine to medium coarse sand. It can be used as a direct method to determine the soil bearing capacity for a foundation. Analyses were carried out on the CPT data from local project site based on the published correlation and. Data were grouped into cohesive and non cohesive. Based on the results, it is observed that the current published correlations are not suitable to be used in Malaysia. Meyerhof’s Bearing Capacity and Schmertmann’s equations were used to obtain the estimated bearing capacity. These figures were then plotted on the graphs and the best fit lines are obtained. Two correlations had been evaluated and presented. These correlations represent cohesive and non cohesive soil respectively. From the two correlations, it can be concluded that Schmertmann’s correlation gives a much higher value compared with bearing capacity calculated using Meyerhof’s. However it shall be noted that the lack of data prevents a better correlation from being produced. A correlation had been proposed in the study to predict the soil bearing capacity value based on the tip resistance. However these correlations are not to be used in practice due to its limitation of data. The published correlations are not suitable to estimate the soil bearing capacity for shallow foundation for soil under study Bearing Capacity correlation for cohesive and non cohesive soils proposed by Schmertmann is likely to overestimate the actual bearing capacity values. The correlation is not appropriate to be used in Malaysia. 2007-04 Thesis http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/6396/ http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/6396/1/MazlanAhmadMFKA2007.pdf application/pdf en public http://dms.library.utm.my:8080/vital/access/manager/Repository/vital:62261 masters Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Faculty of Civil Engineering Faculty of Civil Engineering
institution Universiti Teknologi Malaysia
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topic TA Engineering (General)
Civil engineering (General)
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Civil engineering (General)
Ahmad, Mazlan
Correlation between cone penetration test and bearing capacity for shallow foundation
description The Cone Penetration Test (CPT) is a simple and versatile test that is becoming more popular in Malaysia for soft clay and fine to medium coarse sand. It can be used as a direct method to determine the soil bearing capacity for a foundation. Analyses were carried out on the CPT data from local project site based on the published correlation and. Data were grouped into cohesive and non cohesive. Based on the results, it is observed that the current published correlations are not suitable to be used in Malaysia. Meyerhof’s Bearing Capacity and Schmertmann’s equations were used to obtain the estimated bearing capacity. These figures were then plotted on the graphs and the best fit lines are obtained. Two correlations had been evaluated and presented. These correlations represent cohesive and non cohesive soil respectively. From the two correlations, it can be concluded that Schmertmann’s correlation gives a much higher value compared with bearing capacity calculated using Meyerhof’s. However it shall be noted that the lack of data prevents a better correlation from being produced. A correlation had been proposed in the study to predict the soil bearing capacity value based on the tip resistance. However these correlations are not to be used in practice due to its limitation of data. The published correlations are not suitable to estimate the soil bearing capacity for shallow foundation for soil under study Bearing Capacity correlation for cohesive and non cohesive soils proposed by Schmertmann is likely to overestimate the actual bearing capacity values. The correlation is not appropriate to be used in Malaysia.
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qualification_level Master's degree
author Ahmad, Mazlan
author_facet Ahmad, Mazlan
author_sort Ahmad, Mazlan
title Correlation between cone penetration test and bearing capacity for shallow foundation
title_short Correlation between cone penetration test and bearing capacity for shallow foundation
title_full Correlation between cone penetration test and bearing capacity for shallow foundation
title_fullStr Correlation between cone penetration test and bearing capacity for shallow foundation
title_full_unstemmed Correlation between cone penetration test and bearing capacity for shallow foundation
title_sort correlation between cone penetration test and bearing capacity for shallow foundation
granting_institution Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Faculty of Civil Engineering
granting_department Faculty of Civil Engineering
publishDate 2007
url http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/6396/1/MazlanAhmadMFKA2007.pdf
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