Piezocone and Cone Penetration Test (CPTu and CPT) Applications in Foundation Engineering

Table of Contents

1. Geotechnical engineering
2. Background to foundation engineering
3. CPT equipment, performance, and records
4. Geotechnical parameters from CPT records
5. Soil behavior classification (SBC) using CPT and CPTu records
6. CPT in foundation engineering; scale effect and bearing capacity
7. CPT and CPTu applications for deep foundationebearing capacity
8. CPT and CPTu for foundation settlement and loadedisplacement (P?) estimation
9. CPT & CPTu for ground modification
10. CPT-based soft computing implementations in foundation engineering
11. Uncertainty and reliability in foundation engineering: CPT-Based approach
12. CPT and CPTu databases in foundation engineering

Authors

Abolfazl Eslami Professor, Department of Geotechnical Engineering, Amirkabir University of Technology, Tehran, Iran. Abolfazl Eslami, Professor, Department of Geotechnical Engineering, Amirkabir University of Technology, Tehran, Iran. Sara Moshfeghi Department of Geotechnical Engineering, Amirkabir University of Technology, Tehran, Iran. Sara Moshfeghi, Department of Geotechnical Engineering, Amirkabir University of Technology, Tehran, Iran Hossein MolaAbasi Assistant Professor, Department of Geotechnical Engineering, Gonbad University, Gonbad, Iran. Hossein MolaAbasi, Assistant Professor, Department of Geotechnical Engineering, Gonbad University, Gonbad, Iran. Mohammad M. Eslami Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of California, Los Angeles, USA. Mohammad M. Eslami, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of California, Los Angeles