Geotechnical Ground Investigation

Mechanical Boreholes
  • Rotary drilling with continuous coring (single tube core barrel, double and triple tube core barrel, Geobor type)
  • Rotary auger drilling with hollow stem augers
  • Full sampling
  • Undisturbed Sampling (Shelby, Proctor-Moran,Triplex and thick-walled)
  • Instantaneous Diagraphy

In Situ Testing
  • Standard penetration test (SPT)
  • Dynamic penetration test (PDL, DPH and DPSH)
  • Shear Vane Test (field vane test)
  • Menard pressuremeter test
  • Marchetti Flat Dilatometer (DMT)

Hidrogeological Testing
  • Lefranc test
  • Lugeon test
  • Pumping Water test

Cone Penetration Testing Measurement of Porewater Pressure and Seismic Shear Waves (SCPTu)