Site Investigation
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2015
Authors
Aya Edaly
Bara'a Salhab
Saja Janem
Huda Qaddara
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Every man-made civil engineering structure is found on, in or with ground. We can control to design every item that goes into our structure, such as concrete, reinforcement, bricks and even the last wall plug. However, the ground below on which this structure will stand is not man-made. We usually have less knowledge about it and we undoubtedly cannot design or control its behavior. The ground below will determine the economies of how tall, how heavy, how safe the final structure is going to be and not the other way round. In short, the safety and economics of every civil engineering structure is influenced by the properties of the ground on which this structure will stand. These properties of the ground below or sub-soil are obtained from Site Investigation. And the typical information we obtain from site investigation is the depth of bedrock, soil type, rock type and water table. The main purpose of site investigation to select the type and depth of the foundation, to evaluate the load-bearing capacity of the foundation and to establish of ground water table. And the Stages of site investigation is desk study and site reconnaissance, preliminary ground investigation, detailed ground investigation, monitoring and summarizes the different methods of drilling and sampling. All this points are presented in details in chapter two at the first part of the project. Chapter three at the second part of the project talks about real site investigation, laboratory test, field test and finally it show the steps of writing site investigation report.
Every man-made civil engineering structure is found on, in or with ground. We can control to design every item that goes into our structure, such as concrete, reinforcement, bricks and even the last wall plug. However, the ground below on which this structure will stand is not man-made. We usually have less knowledge about it and we undoubtedly cannot design or control its behavior. The ground below will determine the economies of how tall, how heavy, how safe the final structure is going to be and not the other way round. In short, the safety and economics of every civil engineering structure is influenced by the properties of the ground on which this structure will stand. These properties of the ground below or sub-soil are obtained from Site Investigation. And the typical information we obtain from site investigation is the depth of bedrock, soil type, rock type and water table. The main purpose of site investigation to select the type and depth of the foundation, to evaluate the load-bearing capacity of the foundation and to establish of ground water table. And the Stages of site investigation is desk study and site reconnaissance, preliminary ground investigation, detailed ground investigation, monitoring and summarizes the different methods of drilling and sampling. All this points are presented in details in chapter two at the first part of the project. Chapter three at the second part of the project talks about real site investigation, laboratory test, field test and finally it show the steps of writing site investigation report.
Every man-made civil engineering structure is found on, in or with ground. We can control to design every item that goes into our structure, such as concrete, reinforcement, bricks and even the last wall plug. However, the ground below on which this structure will stand is not man-made. We usually have less knowledge about it and we undoubtedly cannot design or control its behavior. The ground below will determine the economies of how tall, how heavy, how safe the final structure is going to be and not the other way round. In short, the safety and economics of every civil engineering structure is influenced by the properties of the ground on which this structure will stand. These properties of the ground below or sub-soil are obtained from Site Investigation. And the typical information we obtain from site investigation is the depth of bedrock, soil type, rock type and water table. The main purpose of site investigation to select the type and depth of the foundation, to evaluate the load-bearing capacity of the foundation and to establish of ground water table. And the Stages of site investigation is desk study and site reconnaissance, preliminary ground investigation, detailed ground investigation, monitoring and summarizes the different methods of drilling and sampling. All this points are presented in details in chapter two at the first part of the project. Chapter three at the second part of the project talks about real site investigation, laboratory test, field test and finally it show the steps of writing site investigation report.