Interpretation of calibration chamber tests involving cone penetrometers in sands Available to Purchase

Calibration chambers have been used for many years to obtain correlations between cone resistance in sand and the principal factors on which it depends, namely relative density and confining stress. An issue that has received considerable attention over the years has been the size of the chamber in relation to the size of the penetrometer, and the influence that this has on the penetrometer results. The best known studies are those of Parkin & Lunne (1982) and Parkin (1988). Further significant contributions have come from Been et al. (1988), Ghionna & Jamiolkowski (1991), Schnaid & Houlsby...