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In-situ testing
Definition
Field testing is a term used for all in-situ based methods and techniques that qualitatively and quantitatively determine physical, strength, deformability and hydromechanical properties of geomaterials in geotechnical site investigation. Geomaterials include rocks (igneous, metamorphic and sedimentary), soils and their complex, heterogeneous and anisotropic masses that consist of various components, fissures, flaws and other discontinuities at varying size scales.
Introduction
Complex engineering projects such as large infrastructure projects, electricity generating plants, underground openings for mining and nuclear waste repositories, tunneling, dam construction, open-pit mining and so on, require a comprehensive geotechnical site investigation (Schnaid 2009). A site investigation generally involves literature survey, field based measurements such as line surveying to identify geomechanical properties of discontinuities of rock masses and...
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Erguler, Z.A. (2018). Field Testing. In: Bobrowsky, P.T., Marker, B. (eds) Encyclopedia of Engineering Geology. Encyclopedia of Earth Sciences Series. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-73568-9_281
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