Subsurface Investigations: Geotechnical Site Characterization
Federal Highway Administration
How to plan and run a site investigation: drilling and sampling methods, in situ testing with SPT, CPT, vane and dilatometer, geophysical surveys, and how to turn the results into a subsurface profile you can design from.
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