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JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICS AND ENGINEERING
Volume 6, Issue 1, Pages 61-72Publisher
IOP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.1088/1742-2132/6/1/007
Keywords
geotechnical soundings; standard penetration test; penetration resistance; shear wave velocity; statistical correlation; Eskisehir; Turkey
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- Geoscience Data Processing Laboratory (YEBVIL) at Ankara University, Turkey
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In this paper, the correlation between shear wave velocity and standard penetration test blow counts (SPT-N) is investigated. The study focused primarily on the correlation of SPT-N and shear wave velocity (V-s) for several soil categories: all soils, sand, silt and clay-type soils. New empirical formulae are suggested to correlate SPT-N and V-s, based on a dataset collected in a part of Eskisehir settlement in the western central Anatolia region of Turkey. The formulae are based on geotechnical soundings and active and passive seismic experiments. The new and previously suggested formulae showing correlations between uncorrected SPT-N and Vs have been compared and evaluated by using the same dataset. The results suggest that better correlations in estimation of V-s are acquired when the uncorrected blow counts are used. The blow count is a major parameter and the soil type has no significant influence on the results. In cohesive soils, the plasticity contents and, in non-cohesive soils except for gravels, the graded contents have no significant effect on the estimation of Vs. The results support most of the conclusions of earlier studies. These practical relationships developed between SPT-N and V-s should be used with caution in geotechnical engineering and should be checked against measured V-s.
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