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Published By Lankelma
Lankelma is the foremost contractor for onshore in-situ soil testing in the UK. An acknowledged
specialist in CPT, Lankelma also offers a worldwide consultancy and training service.
A.P. van den Berg develops, designs and manufactures geotechnical and environmental soil
investigation equipment for onshore and offshore applications. Specialists in CPT systems and equipment.
Gardline
Gardline Geosciences offers worldwide marine geotechnics, in-house consutancy and services with marine
investigations ranging from nearshore to full ocean depth (down to 3000m).
About the Author
Hans Brouwer studied civil engineering at Delft University in The Netherlands. He has
worked as a part-time lecturer at Amsterdam Polytechnic and was senior partner in a structural
engineering consultancy. He has written a standard textbook in Dutch about the design of
building foundations. He now lives in England where he writes technical textbooks in
English, hopefully to reach a bigger readership.
About this book.
The purpose of this book is to give an overview and short description
of the latest techniques for in-situ soil investigation using ‘push
technology’. It provides information about cone penetration testing,
soil sampling techniques and instrumentation on land and rail, near-shore
and offshore. More than 25 cone penetrometers, instrumentation devices
and samplers are described.
Case Studies
Where possible we have included links to appropriate project case studies.
For a general overview of these studies click on the links below:
Onland site investigations
Offshore site investigations
Nearshore site investigations
For links to case studies related to a specific piece of equipment, visit the relevant page.
For example: to see a project in which a vibrating wire piezometer was used:
visit page 6.2 Vibrating wire piezometer;
At the end of this page you will find a link which will take you to the project case study.
