Stratigraphy: What of the following are the field experiments conducted?

Bacoor, Cavite Have an extremely low ground level ELEVATION. 0-2m (0.8m from MSL during high tide) Composed of Guadalupe clay and clay loam. It is characterized as coarse and granular when dry but sticky and plastic when wet. Its substratum is solid volcanic Tuff. (Accg. To BSWM)

Field Explorations Remarks Test Boring and Core drilling Angle Drilling Deep Well Drilling Offshore Drilling Electrical Resistivity and Electromagnetic Surveying Seismic Reflection and Refraction Profiling Handheld Vane Shear Grouting and Pressure Grouting Wash boring Standard Penetration Test (SPT) and Split-Barrel Sampling Thin walled Tube Sampling (undisturbed Sampling) Rock core Drilling and Sampling Groundwater Elevation Test Pit Sampling Borrow Source Sampling Sampling of aggregates What of the following are the Laboratory experiments conducted? USCS Unified Soil Classification System AASHTO Soil Classification Laboratory Determination of moisture content of soils Liquid limit, and plasticity index of soils Particles size analysis of soils using Hydrometer Specific gravity of soils Modified Proctor Test

Standard Proctor Test The California Bearing Ratio Test Unconfined compressive Strength of cohesive soils Unconsolidated-Undrained Triaxial of Compression Consolidated Drained Triaxial Compression One Dimensional Consolidation Properties Direct Shear Test of Soils Permeability of Granular Soils Permeability of Fine-Grained Soils Moisture Ash and organic Matter of Peat Shrinkage Factors of Soils by the Wax Method Sieve Analysis of Fine and Coarse Aggregates Unit Weight of Aggregates Specific Gravity and Absorption of Aggregates Soundness of Aggregates Abrasion of Coarse Aggregates Compressive Strength of Cylindrical Concrete Specimen Splitting Tensile Strength of Cylindrical Concrete Specimen Slump of Hydraulic-Cement Concrete Footings are the most principal and important part of any building. It may guarantee your success or a total failure of the project Tips on building foundation: When Building over soft soils you may have to excavate down past the soft spot and place a deeper footing. Replace the soft soil with adequate soil that will produce the bearing capacity specified in the design. Build a bigger footing and reinforced it with additional steel (in concrete footings). Use friction piling or end load bearing piling if the soil type below is suitable. It is a common practice to flood the ground once the trenches have been dug and then to compact thoroughly. This improves cohesion and makes the soil considerably more stable to build on. Injecting soil/cement slurry. This type of process requires four key pieces of equipment: a drill rig to advance the slurry to design depth, a batch plant or tank to mix the cement slurry, a pump to push the slurry to the drill rig, and specialized tooling to blend the cement slurry with soil in situ. Using Geogrids will provide an effective mean for reducing pressure below the traffic surface.

The following are criteria to consider regarding laboratory testing 1. Project type 2. Size of the project 3. Loads to be imposed on the foundation soils (geometry, type, direction, and magnitude) 4. Performance requirements for the project (e.g. Settlement and lateral deformation limitations) 5. Vertical and horizontal variations in the subsurface profile as determined from the boring logs and visual identification of subsurface material types in the laboratory 6. Known or suspected peculiarities of subsurface strata at the project location (e.g., swelling soils, collapsible soils, organics, etc.) 7. Presence of visually observed intrusions, slickensides, fissures, concretions, etc. The selection of tests should be considered preliminary until the Geotechnical specialists is satisfied that the results are sufficient to develop reliable profiles and provide the parameters needed for the design.