Geotechnical Aspects of Explosive Compaction

Figure 3

(a) The effect of EC on the increase of CPT cone resistance and relative density (CPT data from [9]). (b) CPT tip resistant increasing with time after (1) blast densification (Mitchell and Solymar [12], Fordham et al. [13], and Jefferies et al. [14]); (2) vibrocompaction (Mitchell and Solymar [12]); and (3) dynamic compaction (Schmertmann [15]). Research and comparison have been done by Charlie et al. [10].

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