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1 STP883-EB/Nov Subject Index A Aas in-situ tests, Analytical model technique, 432, 438 Andersen's procedure, 342, 345, Arabian Gulf soils, 413 ASCE conference, 41 ASTM Standards D 422:385 D 653:12 D 1586:517 D 2435:457 D 3441:34 D 4186:457 field vane shear test, 35,206 Attraction, in-situ, 44, B Beaufort Sea clays, 487 Bering Sea sediment liquefaction, 454 Borehole shear testing, 140 Borehole swell, 150 Bridge site investigation, 515 stratigraphy, British Standards BS :35 BS :35 Building Research Establishment, 21 Bulk density, marine sediment, 154, 163 C Calcarenites, 415,416, 418 Calcareous ooze testing, 114, 116, Calcareous sediments cementation and grain crushing, , 243 Calcilutites, 415 Calcisiltites, 415,419 Carbonate rocks, 413 Cementation, calcareous sediments, Cemented beach sands, 306, 308, 311 Cementing agents, 306 Cesium- 137, 157, 158 Clays Beaufort Sea, 487 classification, cyclic degradation, 336 deformation, 341,351, failure, ,270, 271 Gault, 30, 31 Gulf of Mexico, 363 illitic "red," 84, 88 Kringalik, 488, testing, undrained strength, yield behavior, Nelson Farm, 295 overconsolidated, 259 peak shear stress ratios, pelagic, 114, 115, 117, Copyright ~ 1985 by ASTM International

2 552 STRENGTH TESTING ON AAARINE SEDIMENTS plastic Drammen, 338, 350 quick, 50, 52, 53 rod shear testing, 258 saturated, silty, 50, 52, 295 soft marine (See also Soil, soft cohesive characteristics) cone penetrometer testing, 29 degradation, 360 index properties, shear modulus of, 352 stage testing, 142 undrained behavior, 56, 67 Cohesion, 319 Compressibility, soil, Compression creep testing, multistage triaxial, 479, 482 Compression strength, , 420 Compression testing, unconfined, 201, 222, 225, Cone penetration testing, 441 Beaufort Sea clay, 491, 492, , , downhole, 55, 57 Cone penetration testing Iranian soil, 443, Norton Sound and Bering Sea, 455, 457, 461 offshore Cahfomia silts, 55 soil strength measurement, static, Cone penetrometer fall, jetting system, , lightweight 12-m, 125 static, 126 Cone penetrometer testing, 14, 17, 27, standards, Cone point resistance, 41, 62-64, in soft clay, Consohdation, 339, 340 oedotriaxial, 326, 327 settlement and, Consolidation stress, , 270 Consohdation testing, 201, 256, 323 Consohdation theory, hnear, 79, 80 Corals, 415 Creep, 294, 339, 473 {See also Deformation) Creep testing, multistage, 477, 478, 481, 482, 485 Cyclic degradation of clay, 336 Cyclic loading, 243, effect, 320 pore-pressure buildup during, slow, 367, static, 367 testing, 325, Cyclic strength testing, Cyclic undrained testing, D Deep-Sea Drilling Project (DSDP), , 200, shear strength testing, 253, 255 ship, 156 testing technique, 210 Deformation bridge site, Kringalik clay, warm permafrost, 473 Densitometer, gamma-ray, 154 Dilatancy parameters, Dissipation testing, Doppler penetrometer, expendable components of, deep ocean sediment measurements, 101 Doppler principle, 102 Drained cyclic testing, 329 Drilling, 16 disturbances caused by, rotary, Drill ship wireline in-situ testing, 21 Drill string sampling, push sampling through,

3 INDEX 553 Earthquakes accelerations, 464 liquefaction and, , 455, , 470 loading, 220, 230, 381 Empirical correction method, , 438 factors, European Communities' Joint Research Centre, Commission of, 21 Field testing (See also In-situ testing; specific tests) of Iranian soil, vane testing, standards, Florida, marine environment testing, 140 Friction sleeve resistance, 61, 63 Friction testing, smooth-plate, 145, 148, 151 Gas charging, , 243 Geological Survey, U.S., 130 National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) ship testing, 455 testing, 202, 203, 218, 220 unpublished study, Geotechnical site investigations, 488 philosophy, techniques, Grain crushing, calcareous sediment, Gravity platform foundation stability, Gulf of Mexico clay, 363 H Hurricane Camile, Hvorslev strength theory, 432, 434, 438 Hydraulic piston corer, 200 I Indonesian soil strength testing, In-situ shear strength equipment, In-situ strength and cone penetration testing, In-situ testing, (See also Field testing, specific tests) bridge site, description and standardization, disturbances caused by, equipment, Iranian soil, 443 of marine soil strength, quality assurance, strength degradation in, In-situ versus laboratory testing Arctic marine soils, 512 strength testing, 425, 440 Iranian soil strength testing, K Kringalik Plateau soil testing, Laboratory testing, Iranian soil, marine soil strength, 181 Laboratory test values, correcting, Laboratory versus in-situ testing Arctic marine soils, 512 strength testing, 425, 440 Lake deposit, cone penetration testing, Limestone, 415 Liquefaction analyses, , 230, assessment,

4 554 STRENGTH TESTING ON AURINE SEDIMENTS Bering Sea sediment, 454 resistance, of silts, 387, 389, 394 Loading critical level of repeated (CLRL), platform geometry and, 331 Louisiana soil, 72 M Mackenzie Delta, 489 Marchetti dilatometer testing, 146, 150 from barge, 515, 516, Marine cores, simulated, 154 Marine environment, shallow borehole shear testing, 140 Marine geotechnology, industry and university research, Marine sediments {See also Sands; Silts) composition, 13 core splitting, gases, in-situ testing, 11 poro-elastic properties, 397 properties, soft clay, 352 strength testing, 181, 440 three-dimensional stress relaxation behavior, 294 types, Menard pressuremeter testing, 146, 150 from barge, 515, 516, Miniature vane testing, 188 shear, 108, 202, , 215, 243 Mississippi delta offshore clay testing, 83 shear modulus of soft marine clay, 352 Mohr-Coulomb failure criteria, , 432 Mud vulcanoes, 394 Muds, hard carbonate, 415 Mudslide, 394 N Naval Civil Engineering Laboratory (NCEL), U.S. sampling procedure, seafloor testing, 113 NormaUzed soil parameters (NSP) approach, , 228, 230, 242 Norton Sound, AK, testing, , Norwegian Geotechnical Institute, 218, Norwegian Petroleum Directorate (NPD), 331, 333 O Ocean sediment measurements, 101 Ocean Thermal Energy Conversions (OTEC), 185 Offshore cone penetration testing, 55 (See also Cone penetration testing) Offshore deposit testing, 50 Offshore in-situ strength testing methods, Offshore site investigations, 13 Overconsolidation, 394 stress, 390 Overconsolidation ratio (OCR), 392, 428, 438 marine soil, 15 silts, Pelagic sediments, Penetration resistance and soil strength, 105 Penetration, testing, standard, 17, 146

5 INDEX 555 Penetrating Testing (ESOPT) Conference, European Symposium on, 41 Penetration Testing in Europe, Subcommitte on Standardization of, Permafrost, 488, 490 warm, 473 Permeabilities, 83 Piezocone pentration testing, 72 Piezometer measurements, 83 Pile installation effects, Plasticity, clays, 304, 305 Plate load testing, 17 Platform geometry and loads, 331 Pocket penetrometer testing, 213, 215, 443 Point load index, carbonate rocks, 413 Point load testing, 413, Pore-pressure, buildup during cyclic loading, components, cumulative, 331 dynamic, ratio technique, 497 equation, 321 in soft clay, time-dependent dissipation, 92, Pore suction effects, 27, 28 Pore-water pressure buildup, 392 negative, 393 response, transducers, 384 wave loading and, Pore-water salinity, 219 Poro-elastic properties, marine soils, 397 Port Hueneme, CA, testing, 126, Pressure release disturbance in simulated marine cores, 154 Pressuremeter and Foundation Engineering, The, 474 Pressuremeter testing, 14 of permafrost, 474, self-boring, 16, Probe deployment system, Push sampling, 55, 167, 261 through drill string, R Ramberg-Osgood-Masing model, , , 377 validity, 378 Remote vane shear testing, , 497, Residual pore-pressure technique, , 438 Resistivity probes, 18 Resonant column testing, , Rock Clark and Walker classifications, Middle East types, uniaxial strength, 413 Rod shear testing, 258 Rod-soil rupture, Sample handling, storage and, testing, (See also specific tests; Sampling methods) Sample tube plugging, 166 partial, quality and, Sampling mathematical model, Sampling methods bottom platform, disturbance, 426 drive, 261

6 556 STRENGTH TESTING ON AMRINE SEDIMENTS gravity driven, improved, 187 offshore, percussion sampling, 166, 167, 186, perfect, 426 push sampling, 55, 167, , 261 rotary drilling, Sands {See also Sediments; Silts) calcareous, 441 cemented beach static behavior, 306 classification, frozen, 475, undrained behavior, 56, 67 Sandia National Laboratories, U.S. In Situ Heat Transfer Experiment (ISHTE), 86-87, 88, 92, 95 Subseabed Disposal Program, 84, 86, 295 San Francisco Bay, penetration testing, 126, SEACALF piezocone testing, Seafloor geotechnical properties, 101 jacking system, 56, 57 system, 16, in-situ strength testing, Sediment strength testing program, 425 Sediments (See also Marine Sediments; Sands; Silts) deep ocean, 101, 251 sensitivities, 113 sound velocity, testing, sites, disturbance/environmental factors, northern Bering Sea, liquefaction of, 454 overconsolidated, Self-boring pressurementer testing, , , Settlement and consolidation, SHANSEP procedure, 187, 189, , , 438 analysis of pelagic clays, 253 Shear modulus for soft marine clays, 352 Shear resistance, ultimate, 304 Shear strength behavior, in multistage testing, Shear strength model, Shear strength parameters, 330 effective stress-based, 318 expressions, from static cone penetration testing, 41 Shear strength properties, pelagic sediments, 251 Shear strengths, undrained at bridge site, clays, 354, 355 deep-sea sediment cores, in-situ, 83, 187 Shear stress ratios, reconstituted clays, Shear testing direct, 444 direct simple (DSS), , 338 drained, 149 simple, Silts {See also Sands; Sediments) California offshore, 55 categorization, 65-66, 381 clayey, 56,118, 121 {See also Clays) cone penetration testing, 55, 62-65, Danby, 385, deformations, 392, 394, 395 failure, 389 in-situ strength, Madison, 406, 408, 410 pleistocene, 58 properties, 58, 385

7 INDEX 557 response to wave loads, 381 sandy, 56 Yukon, Simple strength index testing, , 205 Site evaluation process, 426 (See also Bridge site investigation; Offshore site investigations) Soil (See also Clays; Marine sediments; Sands; Sediments; Silts) brittleness index, 312, 316 coarse-grained, cone penetration of, fine-grained, piezocone penetration testing, 72 poro-elastic properties, 397 soft cohesive characteristics, Soil classifications, , 311 Douglas and Olsen classification, 66 Schmertmann classification, 65 Unified, 295 Soil failure, 26, 102 clays, , 270, 271 (See also Clays) Soil Mechanics and Foundation Engineering, International Society of, Soil Mechanics in Offshore Engineering Conference, 185 Soil parameters, variations from triaxial testing, Soil property characteristics, 425 Soil-rod friction, Soil stage testing, 141, 142 Soil strength determination theory, Soil type and stress relaxation, Stage testing, 141, 142, 146, 151 Standard penetration testing (SPT), 441 borings, 515, 516, 517 Indonesian soil, Iranian soil, 443, Static drained testing, 329 Static shear testing, 324 Static undrained testing, Storm conditions, 330, 331 Storm waves, , 516 (See also Wave action; Wave loading) cyclic shear stresses, 464, 465, 466 Uquefaction and, 463 pore-pressure and, 470 Strength, dynamic and static, Strength degradation, Strength measurement validity of, variables, Strength parameters testing, Strength testing, laboratory versus insitu, 440, Stress applied normal, 152 effects, , 304 lateral, 527 octahedral shear, , preconsolidation, shear, 336 Stress history and normalized soil engineering properties (See SHANSEP procedure) Stress relaxation behavior, threedimensional, 294 Sunshine Skyway Bridge, 515, 522 replacement, 141, , 152 Tampa Bay, borehole shear testing, 144, Tension by platforms, foundations of, 336 Testing, integrated, 363 Torvane testing, 213, , 443 Triaxial compression testing

8 558 STRENGTH TESTING ON /MRINE SEDIMENTS UC, , 448 UU, Triaxial shear testing; drained, 311, 315 Triaxial testing, 18 consolidated undrained (CU), 27, 201, 216, 220, 222, 495, 499, 510 correcting results, 432 cyclic, 318, deep-sea sediment, 188 in-situ UU, 19 multistage, 274 Konder's technique, 277, 281, 283, 285, 286, 289 rational procedure, 277, of permafrost, of soft marine clay, static, , 318 stress-based shear strength, 318 types, unconfined compression, 201, 222, 225 unconsolidated undrained, 27, 201, 222, 225, , 499, 510 undrained, 146 undrained compression, 275, 279, 286, 289 variations in soil parameters from, Vane shear probe measurements, 92 Vane shear testing, 14, 441, 443, 451 (See also Miniature vane testing; Remote vane shear testing; Torvane testing) Vibratory samplers, W Wave action and sediment densification, 507 Wave loading, 220, 230, 330, 455, 461 liquefaction and, 469, 470 silts response to, 381 soil deformation and, Wave tank, 382, 383 Wave tank testing, 385, , 394 Wave-soil interaction, Wireline driven (percussion) sampling, 166, 167, 198 Yield behavior, clay,

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