In-Situ Testing Group

PI: Dr. Paul W. Mayne Current Grad Students: Aaron Geiger Taeseo Ku Fawad S. Niazi Meena Viswanath Former Grad Students: Fernando Illingworth                 Nick Meloy Alec McGillivray, PhD              Kelly Sak Mark Quinn                              Craig Wise Joan M. Larrahondo                 Kate (Wehrle) Aguilar Fikret Atalay                            Susan E. Burns, PhD Brian Lawrence, PE                 Randy Pool Guillermo Zavala                      Stewart Garcia Billy Camp                               Hoda Kablawi Pilar Soler-Arnal                      Barry Shiyo Chen, PhD Ali Boga                                  Scott Thomson Tracey Hendren                       Kate Mayer James Schneider, PhD             Jamie Beaver Tianfei Liao, PhD                     Doug Brown Tom Casey                              Dean Harris Gina (Kates) Martin                 JoDee Celes Yasser Hegazy, PhD                Dan Blaydes Kimberly (Finke) Morrison Downloadable Software, Papers, Presentations and Reports In-Situ Geolinks

The Synthesis 368 on Cone Penetration Testing (2007) has been published by the National Academies.  The manual is available from the Transporation Research Board by order at:  http://www.trb.org/news/blurb_detail.asp?id=8306. 

Or download PDF version from:  http://onlinepubs.trb.org/onlinepubs/nchrp/nchrp_syn_368.pdf

Soil Liquefaction Research

- Liquefaction Response of Soils by CPT     - Vibrocone Penetrometer for Evaluating Liquefaction Potential     - Electro-Vibrocone for Evaluation of Soil Liquefaction Potential     - MAE REPORT CD 03:  "Soil Liquefaction Response In Mid-America Evaluated By Seismic Piezocone Tests" James A. Schneider and Paul W. Mayne (2000).     - Soil Liquefaction by Alisha Kaplan

CPT Testing

Data available for ANSS sites in Memphis Area
ESEE and ANSS stations testing, Arkansas and Tennessee (November 2002, June 2003)
Sites close to St. Francis River, Dudley, Missouri (near Dexter, MO) (June 2001)... A. McGillivray, T. Liao and G. Zavala
Meramec River, St. Louis, Missouri (June 2001)... Alec McGillivray, Tianfei Liao and Guillermo Zavala
Sites near Memphis, Tennessee (June 2001)... Alec McGillivray, Tianfei Liao and Guillermo Zavala
Hillhouse Farm, Wyatt, Missouri (March 2001)... Alec McGillivray, Tianfei Liao and Guillermo Zavala
Nodena Farm, Wilson, Arkansas (March 2001)... Alec McGillivray, Tianfei Liao and Guillermo Zavala
Spring Villa NGES, Opelika, Alabama (Sept. 2000)... Alec McGillivray, Jeff Smith and Guillermo Zavala
Wolf River  Memphis, Tennessee (August 2000)... Billy Camp, Tianfei. Liao and Guillermo Zavala.
Toby Walker Farm in Marked Tree, Arkansas (July 2000)... Alec McGillivray,  Tianfei. Liao and Guillermo Zavala
Liquefaction Analysis in Mud Island, Memphis, TN (March 2000)...B. Camp, T. Liao, A. McGillivray and G. Zavala

Drilled Shafts and CPT evaluations

Evaluation of EURIPIDES pile load tests response from CPT data ... Fawad S. Niazi and Paul W. Mayne
Case history of axial pile capacity and load-settlement response by SCPTu ... F.S. Niazi & P.W. Mayne, D.J. Woeller
Evaluating Axial Elastic Pile Response from Cone Penetration Tests ... Paul W. Mayne and Fawad S. Niazi
Drilled Shaft O-Cell Response at Golden Ears Bridge from Seismic Piezocone Tests ... Fawad S. Niazi, Paul W. Mayne and David J. Woeller
Review of CPT-Based Methods for Response Evaluation of Driven Piles in Dense Sands ... Fawad S. Niazi, Paul W. Mayne and David J. Woeller
Evaluating Axial Elastic Pile Response from Cone Penetration Tests ... Paul W. Mayne and Fawad S. Niazi
Axial Drilled Shaft & CPT Evaluations for Coweta County Bridge, Georgia ...Tom Casey, Paul Mayne and Alec McGillivray
Axial Drilled Shaft & CPT Evaluations for Opelika NGES, Alabama ...Paul Mayne and James Schneider
Drilled Shafts and CPT Evaluations for the GDOT Viaduct at International Blvd and CNN by Zavala and Mayne (215 KB pdf)

Seismic Dilatometer

SDMTs and SCPTus at Amherst NGES, Massachusetts... Yasser Hegazy, Paul Mayne and Gina Kates Martin

Shear Wave Velocity Measurements Automatic Seismic Source for shear wave velocity measurements (AUTOSEIS)     Downhole shear wave velocity (Powerpoint animation / jpeg file )     Crosshole shear wave velocity (Powerpoint animation / jpeg file)     Seismic Refraction (Powerpoint animation / jpeg file (1/2) jpeg (2/2)

In-Situ Testing...

In-Situ testing devices
CPTu powerpoint animation
Geotechnical Site Characterization by Cone Penetration Testing (2.73 MB Powerpoint Presentation)
SCPTu for Seismic Ground Hazards
SCPTu for Soil Properties determination
DMT testing at Charlotte, NC

Research Projects Involving Plasma Magmavication of Geomaterials

Plasma Magmavication of Geologic Materials
Remediation of Buried Biological, Chemical, and Nuclear Surrogate Wastes by In-Situ Plasma Magmavication
In-Situ Plasma Remediation of Contaminated Soils

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Geosystems Engineering
School of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Georgia Institute of Technology

Comments, questions, errors: please email paul.mayne@ce.gatech.edu