The Plate Load Test is an excellent insitu site investigation field test used to determine the ultimate bearing capacity of the ground and the likely settlement under a given load. It is designing for measuring static loads on spread footings (e.g. to determine...
One of the key concerns of project managers is safety, including the risk of people getting injured or killed at site. Hence, for temporary working platforms, the need to measure the in-situ bearing capacity to minimise the risk of a critical failure or incident for...
Reliability in the Testing & Assessing of Piling Work Platforms Cranes & Piling Rigs Technical Paper by Balfour Beatty – Ground Engineering Magazine – November 2012 Use of the Plate Load Test and Light Weight Deflectometer for assessing the...
