Bibliographic research, tests and summaries of the most part of existing correlations among soil characterstics (VSS1996/030)
Overview
Background & policy context:
Eurocode7: geotechnical design (EN 1997 - Part 1) requires that the characteristic values of soil properties is checked using published correlations among the parameters. Virtually no work exists which summarizes all of the correlations published up to the present, a search in the technical literature is time consuming and tedious and the correlations found are often misleading.
Objectives:
To provide a simple and proven method for practice engineers for the evaluation of characteristic values of soil properties using correlations, as required in Eurocode 7 (EN1997): Geotechnical design.
Methodology:
The project will be compiled for Swiss soils (alpine arc soils):
- through a detailed and double-checked bibliographic research
- through the use of statistics on Swiss soils based on over 6000 samples (150'000 values)
This research will also include a study of the best method for the practical presentation of these correlations tests of the correlations found using Eurocode 7.
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