Cable ploughing is an important technique for burying and protecting offshore cables. The ability to predict the required tow force plough performance essential allow vessel selection project programming. Existing models require calibration against full-scale field testing determine empirical parameters, a requirement that may hinder their use. In this study factors controlling resistance were ...

A reliability-based analysis framework, accounting for uncertainty arising from the spatial variability of soil properties, has been validated controlled, well-instrumented slope failure an historic dyke in Netherlands. Using property statistics derived results laboratory and cone penetration test (CPT) data different layers at site, was analysed initial (i.e. operating) conditions, as well lat...

Cone penetration resistance in sands with fines contents up to 35% is explored through drained cylindrical cavity expansion simulations with a modified MIT-S1 constitutive model. The constitutive model is calibrated to sands with 0%, 10%, 20%, and 35% low-plasticity fines with data from constant volume direct simple shear, drained and undrained triaxial compression, shear wave velocity, and 1D-...

The Standard Penetration Test (SPT) and Cone Penetrometer Test (CPT) have become industry standards for subsurface geotechnical investigations using small diameter (<8-in. [20-cm]) borings and soundings. Both procedures have evolved over a period of 100 and 70 years, respectively, and have been adopted as ASTM standards. Each procedure has certain advantages over the other, but both can elicit ...

Abstract The continuous cone penetration test (CPT) measurements provide an advantageous liable rapid tool for stratification and soil behavior classification that can be employed in the sustainable design of infrastructures. However, CPT are often interpreted by geotechnical experts because involved complexities uncertainties. In this study, a novel type (SBT) model is developed to identify tr...

The bearing capacity of screw cast in situ displacement piles is mostly unexplored. There also insufficient research on silty soils. Therefore, five cone penetration tests (CPT) and one piezocone test (CPTu) using direct methods were utilised to determine the load-bearing four Estonia. In addition CPT sounding data, static-dynamic (SDT) results used analyse load-beating piles. Both deterministi...

In this paper, the discrete element method (DEM) is coupled with Lattice Boltzmann (LBM) to model cone penetration test (CPT) of a saturated granular media. The numerical was calibrated using one-dimensional (1D) consolidation theory. results obtained from 1D simulation showed good agreement analytical equation that proposed by Terzaghi. A series LBM–DEM simulations were carried out understand ...