About this book.
The purpose of this book is to give an overview and short description of the latest techniques for in-situ soil investigation using ‘push technology’. It provides information about cone penetration testing, soil sampling techniques and instrumentation on land and rail, near-shore and offshore. More than 25 cone penetrometers, instrumentation devices and samplers are described.
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Price: £37.50 | Pages: 144 | ISBN: 978-1-86081-951-3
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About the Author
Hans Brouwer studied civil engineering at Delft University in The Netherlands. He has worked as a part-time lecturer at Amsterdam Polytechnic and was senior partner in a structural engineering consultancy. He has written a standard textbook in Dutch about the design of building foundations. He now lives in England where he writes technical textbooks in English, hopefully to reach a bigger readership.
About the Book
The purpose of this book is to give an overview and short description of the latest techniques for in-situ soil investigation using ‘push technology’. It provides information about cone penetration testing, soil sampling techniques and instrumentation on land and rail, near-shore and offshore. More than 25 cone penetrometers, instrumentation devices and samplers are described. Furthermore it provides links to more detailed information about the various techniques, including detailed appendices providing formulae used in these techniques
About Lankelma
Lankelma provides site investigations and the installation of geotechnical instrumentation. Since starting trading in the United Kingdom in 1999, Lankelma has become the UK’s leading onshore CPT provider, with extensive experience throughout Europe, the Far East, Australia, Africa and the Americas.