Correlation between seismic wave velocities and the corrected standard penetration test for soil

Ahmed Farid, Muhamed Rizwan

In the proceedings of: GeoRegina 2014: 67th Canadian Geotechnical Conference

Session: Soil Mechanics

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RÉSUMÉ: lthe co Ahmed FGeotechnCairo, EgMuhamedGeotechn(RGF), R ABSTRACIn this paptest data fboreholes for all drillihole. Correthe seismistudies fostandard pand geophpenetration RÉSUMÉ Dans le pdonnées ddans la résols avec profondeuutilisant trorelation embase des vitesse deemplacemvérifier la c 1 INTR Site classiNational Bvelocity

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Ahmed Farid; Muhamed Rizwan (2014) Correlation between seismic wave velocities and the corrected standard penetration test for soil in GEO2014. Ottawa, Ontario: Canadian Geotechnical Society.

@article{GeoRegina14Paper436,author = Ahmed Farid; Muhamed Rizwan,title = Correlation between seismic wave velocities and the corrected standard penetration test for soil,year = 2014}