Cone Penetration Testing

 for Onshore and Offshore Geotechnics Symposium

    12th & 13th October 2011

at The Drilling Academy, nr. Banbury

This symposium is an essential comprehensive training course and refresher for all geotechnical and geo-environmental practitioners involved in Cone Penetration Testing for Onshore and Offshore Geotechnics. The symposium is devoted to raising the awareness of current test procedures, advances, data derived from the tests and includes practical demonstrations.

If you want to understand the CPT and it’s applications or need to get up to date with the technology this course is for you.

Day 1

08:45 – 09:15 Registration and Coffee
09:15 – 09:30 Introduction – Julian Lovell, Equipe
09:30 – 10:15 Historic overview, what do we measure with PCPT/CPTU, deployment and measurement systems - Tom Lunne, NGI
10:15 – 10:20 Comments and Questions
10:20 – 11:05 CPTU data processing, corrections and accuracy, available standards and guidelines John Powell, Consultant
11:05 – 11:15 Comments and Questions
11:15 – 11:30 Morning Break
11:30 – 12:00 Marine soil investigations - Brian Georgious, Gardline Geosciences
12:00 – 12:25 Importance of quality control of data, onshore and offshore - Tom Lunne, NGI
12:25 – 12:40 Comments and Questions
12:40 – 13:10 Demonstrations
13:10 – 13:35 Lunch
13:35 – 14:00 Profiling and soil identification - John Powell, Consultant
14:00 – 14:35 CPTU derived parameters in sand - Tom Lunne, NGI
14:35 – 14:50 Afternoon Break
14:50 – 15:35 CPTU derived parameters in clay - John Powell, Consultant
15:35 – 16:05 Unexploded Ordnance – CPT for UXO
16:05 – 16:20 Summing Up and Close

Day 2

08:30 – 09:00 Coffee
09:00 – 09:25 Experience in other soil types (silt, chalk, peat ++) - John Powell, Consultant
09:25 – 09:50 Full flow penetrometers for increased accuracy in very soft clays - Tom Lunne, NGI
10:00 – 10:35 Other sensors; seismic cone, cone pressuremeter, nuclear density probes - John Powell, Consultant
10:35 – 11:00 Application of other sensors – geo-environmental, video cone, electrical resistivity
Darren Ward, In Situ Site Investigations
11:00 – 11:15 Coffee break
11:15 – 12:15 Direct application of CPTU results: pile bearing capacity, compaction control, monitoring of reclaimed land, liquefaction potential - Tom Lunne, NGI
12:15 – 13:00 Applications of CPT for offshore design - Peter Allen, Geomarine
13:00 – 14:00 Lunch and Equipment demonstrations
14:00 – 14:30 Examples and case histories - Tom Lunne, NGI
14:30 – 14:45 Sampling with PCPT equipment - John Powell, Consultant
14:45 – 15:30 Prepared contributions/questions from participants
15:30 – 15:45 Summing Up and Close

Speakers
Tom Lunne, Expert Adviser NGI, Discipline Leader of Offshore Soil Investigations, Offshore Geotechnics
Dr John Powell, Technical Director, Geolabs and Independent Consultant
Darren Ward, Managing Director, In Situ Site Investigations
Dr Peter Allan, Managing Director, Geomarine
Brian Georgious, Geotechnical Manager, Gardline Geoscience
Asger Eriksen, CEO, Zetica

Who Should attend?
This symposium is tailored for geotechnical practitioners procuring, specifying, carrying out and interpreting CPT data for geotechnical and geoenvironmental investigations for highways, railways, offshore structures, offshore geotechnics.

Course Lecturers
Tom Lunne, Expert Adviser, Discipline Leader of Offshore Soil Investigations, Offshore Geotechnics
Dr John Powell, Independent Consultant & Technical Director, GEOLABS
Darren Ward, Managing Director, In Situ
Dr Peter Allan, Managing Director, Geomarine