[BOOK][B] Advanced soil mechanics

BM Das - 2019 - taylorfrancis.com
Now in its fifth edition, this classic textbook continues to offer a well-tailored resource for
beginning graduate students in geotechnical engineering. Further develo** the basic …

Use of fall cones to determine Atterberg limits: a review

BC O'Kelly, PJ Vardanega, SK Haigh - Géotechnique, 2018 - icevirtuallibrary.com
This paper reviews the percussion-cup liquid limit, thread-rolling plastic limit (PL) and
various fall-cone and other approaches employed for consistency limit determinations on …

Review of recent developments and understanding of Atterberg limits determinations

BC O'Kelly - Geotechnics, 2021 - mdpi.com
Among the most commonly specified tests in the geotechnical engineering industry, the
liquid limit and plastic limit tests are principally used for (i) deducing useful design parameter …

The undrained strength–liquidity index relationship

PJ Vardanega, SK Haigh - Canadian Geotechnical Journal, 2014 - cdnsciencepub.com
A database of 641 fall cone tests on 101 soil samples from 12 countries has been analysed
to determine the best mathematical relationship linking undrained shear strength with …

Water content determinations for peat and other organic soils using the oven-drying method

BC O'Kelly, V Sivakumar - Drying Technology, 2014 - Taylor & Francis
There has been much debate in the literature over the past 60 years regarding an
appropriate oven-drying temperature for water content determinations in peat and other …

[HTML][HTML] Settling, consolidation and shear strength behaviour of coal tailings slurry

S Islam, DJ Williams, M Llano-Serna… - International Journal of …, 2020 - Elsevier
The volume change and shear strength behaviour of tailings slurry with the changes in
gravimetric moisture content is important to effectively utilise the storage volume and …

Possibility of using torvane shear testing device for soil conditioning optimization

E Avunduk, H Copur, S Tolouei, D Tumac… - … and Underground Space …, 2021 - Elsevier
Determining the optimum amount of soil conditioning agents and the behavior of excavated
soil+ foaming agent mixture during excavation process play an important role in the design …

Comparative analysis of atterberg limits, liquidity index, flow index and undrained shear strength behavior in binary clay mixtures

E Karakan - Applied Sciences, 2022 - mdpi.com
In geotechnical engineering applications, it is very important to obtain the undrained shear
strength of remolded soils accurately and reliably. This study aims to obtain a trustworthy …

Reappraisal of fall-cone flow curve for soil plasticity determinations

A Soltani, BC O'Kelly - Geotechnical Testing Journal, 2022 - asmedigitalcollection.asme.org
Several attempts have been made to devise alternate plastic limit (PL) determination
methods, targeting higher degrees of repeatability and reproducibility. Among these …

Discussion of “Mohajerani method: Tool for determining the liquid limit of soils using fall cone test results with strong correlation with the Casagrande test” by E …

BC O'Kelly, PJ Vardanega, SK Haigh - Engineering Geology, 2022 - Elsevier
The Authors have presented an interesting paper (Hrubesova et al., 2020), which aims (in
part) to validate the Moharjerani (1999) calibration approach for establishing the 80 g/30° …