Geotechnical analysis Tampa Different Geotechnical Analysis Tests

Construction projects often involve earthwork, foundations, roads and tunnels. Designs of foundations and excavations require accurate testing of soils and soil-structure interactions with geotechnical analysis. Tampa contractors knows that deformations in soils are affected by the flow of pore fluid in the soil and the implications of this coupled phenomenon need to be taken into account for design purposes. The interactions between the soil and the adjoining non-soil structures are also important aspects of the overall construction design. There are a few different types of geotechnical testing that are performed to understand the characteristics such as the physical properties that exist underneath a worksite.

What is Boring?

One popular type of geotechnical testing is known as boring. Usually small-diameter borings, provide the opportunity to actually take away soil or rock samples for testing. Borings provide the advantage of letting you ‘see’ the actual materials, but for certain types of soils, the very act of boring can disturb the soil conditions and the samples extracted may not represent what the conditions will actually be for building and supporting structures since it is unscientific and void of actionable data. Typically with geotechnical analysis, Tampa geotechnical engineers take their samples to lab where they are evaluated.

What About Trenching?

Trenching is similar to test pits, which are just like they sound. A test pit is dug either manually or with an excavator except that in this case, the pit is elongated over some distance in order to establish how the sub-surface conditions change over various parts of the work site. A range of soil samplers can be used to extract test samples including shovels, hand-driven augers, split-spoon samplers, modified California samplers and Shelby tube samplers. With Geotechnical Analysis, Tampa contractors are trying to understand the characteric and physical properties that exist underneath a work site.

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