Print Email Facebook Twitter Small-Scale Sounding Tests on Soft Saturated Cohesive Soils Title Small-Scale Sounding Tests on Soft Saturated Cohesive Soils Author Van Kessel, T. Faculty Civil Engineering and Geosciences Department Hydraulic Engineering Date 1996-06-01 Abstract Knowledgeof the yield strength of subaqueous sediment beds is essential to calculate their sensitivity to erosion and failure. Also for dredging operations yield strength is a parameter of the utmost importance. This report describes measurements of the yield strength profiles of cohesive sediment samples with a sounding instrument developed by the Hydromechanics Laboratory of this university. From the forces acting on a geometry slowly penetrating into a sediment sample the strength profile is calculated. During some experiments also pore and total pressures were measured. The influencesof penetration geometry and traversing speed are discussed. The method is shown to be suitable to measure bed strength profiles fairly accurately. Several sediment types with varying consolidation times were tested. Subject yield strengthsubaqueous sedimentsounding testspenetration geometrytraversing speedbed strengthsediment To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:b94ce6df-aead-4f67-98c1-7da8d76dfc03 Publisher TU Delft, Department of Hydraulic Engineering Source Report no. 7-96 Part of collection Institutional Repository Document type report Rights (c) TU Delft, Department of Hydraulic Engineering Files PDF Kessel_van1996a.pdf 9.39 MB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:b94ce6df-aead-4f67-98c1-7da8d76dfc03/datastream/OBJ/view