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Purpose/ Advantages Purpose/
Advantages

5.  able to give sleeve friction, cone resistance and
Piezocone pore water pressure values
Test 6. Vane Shear  to obtain
(CPTu)  determination of stratification and soil type Test (VST) undrained
shear strength
 CPTu also provides a better basis for of fully
interpreting the results in terms of mechanical saturated clays
soil properties which includes the evaluation of:

a. shear strength parameters

b. deformation and consolidation
characteristics
Figure 9: Piezocone Test Figure 11: Components of Geonor VST
 dissipation of pore water pressure to get
permeability value

Figure 12: Geonor VST
Figure 10: Schematic diagram for
cone penetrometer

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