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My Desire: What I wanted to accomplish |
Collaborate with a collegiate laboratory team to
complete a shallow foundation overburden and structure load Young’s Moduli
comparison. |
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Description of the result |
Leadership was provided in developing laboratory
procedures to verify Schmertmann’s use of successive sand strata overburden
Young’s Moduli in his shallow settlement analytical method. The
exercise featured a consolidated drained (CD) triaxial test in which the
procedures involved a frozen sand sample preparation and triaxial test setup
(confining pressure application and thawed sample consolidation). It
also involved computing required ram load to develop the overburden and
structure load states, incremental load application, and effective confining
pressure reduction to simulate the actual structure load soil
condition. Approximate deviator stress versus approximate vertical
strain plots was developed through which Young’s Moduli were obtained. |
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Any measure or quantities to prove my
accomplishment |
A laboratory report was developed that received a
Nebraska University Civil Engineering College Foundations Course excellent
grade (A). |
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