Site Investigation for Geotechnical Design

Note

This online course is one in a four part mini-series on Web Series: Foundation Engineering: From Site Investigation to Design. Topics in this series include:

You can save 20% when you enroll for all four webinars in the series.

After participating in this webinar, you will be able to:

Perform site investigation for a typical project
Interpret the field test results and estimate soil parameters
Determine proper laboratory tests required for your project

Description
Site investigation is generally conducted prior to the start of any construction project to gather crucial information that will influence the design, construction, and environmental assessment of a proposed project. Site investigation could be carried out using both surface site exploration methods (non-intrusive techniques) and subsurface drilling survey (intrusive methods). This webinar presents various site exploration techniques used in a typical site investigation process including geophysical measurements, geotechnical drilling, sampling and field tests.

An overview of selecting proper lab tests for specific site conditions along with geotechnical reporting will also be discussed.

Course Contents

Purpose of site investigation
Geophysical measurements
Geotechnical drilling, bore hole logs
Soil sampling techniques
Field and laboratory tests
Estimating soil parameters from field tests

Who Should Attend
Those who deal with construction related geotechnical engineering issues or need to build background on geotechnical analyses and design including: