Instrumentation in Geotechnics Symposium

    11th & 12th January 2012

at The Drilling Academy, nr. Banbury

Web Links in John Dunnicliff’s Lectures


Systematic Approach to Planning Monitoring Programmes – Step 8 (both on GIN website):

• Dail and Volterra, September 2009
• Dunnicliff, June 2011
─ Assigned subcontractor = Nominated subcontractor
─ Assigned supplier = Nominated supplier
─ Allowance item = Prime cost item
─ Cost estimate = Provisional sum

Some Sources of Information about Geotechnical Instrumentation

Geotechnical Instrumentation News (GIN):

• www.geotechnicalnews.com

Manual of Geotechnical Engineering (MOGE):

•www.icevirtuallibrary.com/icemanuals/MOGE

British Tunnelling Society Practice Guide – Review:

• Dunnicliff, December 2011 (on GIN website)

Future Standards
• Bock and Thayer, 2007
• Dunnicliff, 2011

Overview of Hardware

Open Standpipe Piezometers (all on GIN website):

• Mikkelsen, December 2002
• Contreras et al, June 2008
• Dunnicliff, June 2008

Fully-grouted Vibrating Wire Piezometers (all on GIN website):

• Mikkelsen, December 2002
• Contreras et al, June 2008
• Dunnicliff, June 2008
• Weber, June 2009
• Bayrd, December 2011

Fully-grouted Vibrating Wire Piezometers

• Contreras et al, September 2011