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    • Pressuremeter test

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    • Bored piles

Library

  • BS 6100-3:2007 Building and civil engineering – Vocabulary Part 3: Civil engineering – General
  • ISO 13793-2001 Thermal performance of buildings. Thermal design of foundations to avoid frost heave
  • PAS 128:2014 Specification for underground utility detection, verification and location
  • Code of practice for
    • BS 5930:2015 Code of practice for ground investigations
    • BS 6031:2009 Code of practice for earthworks
    • BS 8004:2015 Code of practice for foundations
    • BS 8102:2009 Code of practice for protection of below ground structures against water from the ground
  • Eurocode 7
    • Eurocode 7 Geotechnical design Part 1 : General rules
    • Eurocode 7 Geotechnical design Part 2 : Ground investigation and testing
    • Eurocode 7 Geotechnical design Part 3 : Design assisted by fieldtesting
  • Execution of special geotechnical works
    • EN 1536:1999 Execution of special geotechnical works - Bored piles
    • EN 1537:1999 Execution of special geotechnical works - Ground anchors
    • EN 1538:2000 Execution of special geotechnical works — Diaphragm walls
    • EN 12063:1999 Execution of special geotechnical work – Sheet-pile walls
    • EN 12699:2001 Execution of special geotechnical work – Displacement piles
    • EN 12715:2000 Execution of special geotechnical work – Grouting
    • EN 12716:2001 Execution of special geotechnical works — Jet grouting
    • EN 14199:2005 Execution of special geotechnical works — Micropiles
    • EN 14475:2006 Execution of special geotechnical works – Reinforced fill
    • EN 14679:2005 Execution of special geotechnical works — Deep mixing
    • EN 14490:2010 Execution of special geotechnical works – Soil nailing
    • EN 14731:2005 Execution of special geotechnical works - Ground treatment by deep vibration
    • EN 15237:2007 Execution of special geotechnical works — Vertical drainage
  • Precast concrete products
    • EN 14991:2007 Precast concrete products. Foundation elements
    • EN 12794:2005 Precast concrete products – Foundation piles
  • Geotechnical investigation and testing
    • ISO 14688-1:2013 Identification and classification of soil - Part 1: Identification and description
    • ISO 14688-2:2004 Identification and classification of soil — Part 2: Principles for a classification
    • ISO 14689-1:2003 Identification and classification of rock — Part 1: Identification and description
    • ISO 22475-1:2006 Geotechnical investigation and testing - Sampling methods and groundwater measurements - Part 1
    • ISO 22476-1:2012 Field testing — Part 1: Electrical cone and piezocone penetration test
    • ISO 22476-2:2005 Field testing — Part 2: Dynamic probing
    • ISO 22476-3:2005 Field testing — Part 3: Standard penetration test
    • ISO 22476-4:2012 Field testing — Part 4: Ménard pressuremeter test
    • ISO 22476-5:2012 Field testing — Part 5: Flexible dilatometer test
    • ISO 22476-7:2012 Field testing — Part 7: Borehole jack test
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High pressure instrument
High pressure instrument
Pressuremeter testing was invented by Louis Menard in France in the mid 1950’s. The standard “Menard” pressuremeter is a cylindrical instrument fitted with a flexible rubber membrane, which is lowered into a pre-bored hole and then expanded against the borehole sidewalls.

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