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Geomechanics and Engineering Volume 2, Number 3, September 2010 , pages 177-190 DOI: https://doi.org/10.12989/gae.2010.2.3.177 |
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Design of a piezovibrocone and calibration chamber |
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Pijush Samui and T.G. Sitharam
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| Abstract | ||
| This paper presents the details of indigenous development of the piezovibrocone and calibration chamber. The developed cone has a cylindrical friction sleeve of 150 cm2 surface area, capped with a 600 apex angle conical tip of 15 cm2 cross sectional area. It has a hydraulic shaker, coupled to the cone penetrometer with a linear displacement unit. The hydraulic shaker can produce cyclic load in different types of wave forms (sine, Hover sine, triangular, rectangular and external wave) at a range of frequency 1-10 Hz with maximum amplitude of 10 cm. The piezovibrocone can be driven at the standard rate of 2 cm/sec using a loading unit of 10 ton capacity. The calibration chamber is of size 2m | ||
| Key Words | ||
| calibration chamber; cone penetration test; piezovibrocone; site characterization; sand. | ||
| Address | ||
| Pijush Samui: Centres for Disaster Mitigation and Management, VIT University, Vellore-632014, Tamilnadu, India T.G. Sitharam: Department of Civil Engineering, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore - 560 012, India | ||