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SonicCPT: the next step in cone penetration testing?

SonicCPT is an exciting and rapidly developing technique from Royal Eijkelkamp, which can be applied to reduce early refusals in CPT soundings by carefully applying a vibration to the CPT string.

 Royal Eijkelkamp is developing its SonicCPT technique alongside Italian rig manufacturer Fraste

Royal Eijkelkamp is developing its SonicCPT technique alongside Italian rig manufacturer Fraste

The technique of SonicCPT has a history dating back almost 40 years to when Sasaki et al. reported their work to develop and deploy their vibratory cone, which they used for liquefaction analysis. They...

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