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The Building Research Establishment (BRE) has, for a number of years, been investigating the pressuremeter test, its interpretation and the application of its results for assessing soil properties relevant to design. The work originated with studies on London Clay (Marsland and Randolph, 1977), developed through various research programmes into offshore site investigations (e.g. Henderson et al., 1979; Marsland, 1979) and has continued by returning to the land-based application (Powell et al., 1983).
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Powell, J.J.M., Uglow, I.M. (1985). A Comparison of Ménard, Self-boring and Push-in Pressuremeter Tests in a Stiff Clay Till. In: Offshore Site Investigation. Advances in Underwater Technology and Offshore Engineering, vol 3. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-7358-2_13
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