SYNOPSIS

The Piezocone Penetrometer Test (CPTU) has become the geotechnical industry’s preferred in-situ site investigation testing system for most soil conditions both on land and overwater. This 1-day workshop will describe the test equipment, data acquisition and processing procedures, and most importantly, data quality assessment. It will also provide guidance on the interpretation of the CPT/CPTU results for typical geotechnical applications. The book entitled "CPT in Geotechnical Practice" will be the primary reference for the workshop.

This course aims tailored to provide geotechnical practitioners with the necessary training to specify, manage, interpret and QC CPT ground investigations. The course discusses the equipment, test procedures, data processing and interpretation, and how to recognize acceptable and unacceptable (erroneous) data. The course is based on material previously presented in a number of countries, and has been applauded as providing the most thorough and informed publically available guidance on the subject.

BIODATA OF SPEAKER

Mr. Tom Lunne is a technical expert at the Norwegian Geotechnical Institute (NGI). He is also on the board of directors for the Kuala Lumpur based company NGI-G&P.  Mr. Lunne graduated from Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh (1970), Scotland. After 5 years at NGI he spent one year at University of California, Berkeley (MsC) before going back to NGI. Mr. Lunne was a division manager for some 16 years, but has all the time pursued his main technical interests which has centered around characterization of offshore soils through sampling, laboratory testing and in situ testing. He has conducted a large number of consulting and R&D projects in this field. He is the lead author of the well known book: Cone Penetration Testing in Engineering Practice, together with Peter Robertson, US, and John Powell, UK.

Dr. John Powell is Technical Director at Geolabs Ltd and an Associate at BRE, both in the UK. He obtained his BSc and MSc(Eng) at Imperial College London and his DSc(Eng) from London University. John joined the Building Research Establishment (BRE) where he became involved in projects on the flood embankments of the Thames, foundations for high rise structures, offshore foundations issues including soil sampling and laboratory and field determinations of soil properties for design and these topics have continued throughout his career. He is currently responsible for BRE’s research and consultancy in ground property assessment and its use in geotechnical design and is also now leading Geolabs Ltd development and research in the area of advanced laboratory testing. He first became involved with the CPT in 1975 and it and other in situ tests have been a major feature of his work ever since. He sits on many national and international technical and standards committees including that producing the new CEN and ISO standards on CPT/CPTU.