3D response surface modeling based in-situ assessment of physico-mechanical characteristics of alluvial soils using dynamic cone penetrometer

Usama Khalid*, Zia ur Rehman, Hassan Mujtaba, Khalid Farooq

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Abstract

Dynamic cone penetrometer (DCP) is the quickest and cheapest in-situ probing apparatus to estimate the soil stiffness; however, insufficient correlations are available to directly assess various physico-mechanical characteristics of natural alluvial soils using DCP. The key purpose of this study is to statistically equate the in-situ DCP test outcomes to different physico-mechanical characteristics of alluvial soils. For this purpose, in-situ DCP tests were performed at 26 different locations in the Indus plane, and corresponding undisturbed specimens were collected for laboratory testing. Various physico-mechanical characteristics of soil i.e., natural water content (wn), natural dry unit weight (γd), unconfined compressive strength (qu), deformation modulus (E50), strain at failure (εf), natural void ratio (en) and California bearing ratio (CBR) were determined in the laboratory. Initially, the regression-based models were established for γd, qu, E50, εf, en, and CBR using dynamic cone penetrometer index (DCPI) as a solitary predictor. Afterward, predictive models of the aforementioned parameters were developed based on wn integrated DCPI by quantifying the best-fit trend line and three-dimensional (3D) response surface among pertinent dependent and independent variables. In addition, it is found that the models developed using 3D response surface modeling hold 8.2–42.4% lesser error than the regression-based models developed in the current study. Moreover, results show that the DCP based assessment of soil is influenced by wn and independent of consistency limits and soil type of the alluvial soils.

Original languageEnglish
Article number100781
Number of pages15
JournalTransportation Geotechnics
Volume36
Early online date18 Jun 2022
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 1 Sept 2022

Keywords

  • 3D response surface modeling
  • Alluvial soils
  • Dynamic cone penetrometer
  • In-situ testing
  • Physico-mechanical characteristics

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