Cone penetration testing in thinly inter-layered soils

Guide to Cone Penetration Testing

NCHRP Synthesis 368 – Cone Penetration Testing

Systematic, well-designed research provides the most effective approach to the solution of many problems facing highway administrators and engineers. Often, highway problems are of local interest and can best be studied by highway departments individually or in cooperation with their state universities and others. However, the accelerating growth of highway transportation develops increasingly ...

Using Miniature Cone Penetration Test (Mini-CPT) to determine engineering properties of sandy soils

In-situ testing techniques have proven to be successful in improving the speed and reliability of geotechnical investigations. One of the most common in-situ methods in engineering geology and site investigation is Cone Penetration Test (CPT), which is mainly used for characterization of soils, as it is a robust, simple, fast, reliable and economic test that can provide continuous soundings of ...

Random field characterisation of stress-normalised cone penetration testing parameters

Random field modelling of soil variability allows significant statistical results to be inferred from field data; moreover, it provides a consistent framework for incorporating such variability in reliability-based design. Cone penetration testing (CPT) is increasingly appreciated because of its near-continuity and repeatability. Stressnormalised CPT parameters are included in widely used engin...

Penetration Testing

The TCB shall be found resistant to penetration. Near flawless penetration testing is a requirement for high-rated secure systems — those rated above B1 based on the Trusted Computer System Evaluation Criteria (TCSEC) and its Trusted Network and Database Interpretations (TNI and TDI). Unlike security functional testing, which demonstrates correct behavior of the product's advertised security co...