You can use this page to send us your experiences with instrumentation and monitoring. Case histories are short pieces of work (no more than one A4 page) prepared to a standard template for easy reading and comparison. Articles are more in-depth pieces of work. Both should be sent to editor@field-monitoring.org for review, comment and eventually inclusion on this website.
Case Histories
Here is the challenge:
Professor Ralph Peck (1912-2008)
If you can’t reduce a difficult engineering problem to just one 8 ½ x 11-inch (A4) sheet of paper, you will probably never understand it!
Download a template file and send us your case history.
Here is an example case history written by Elmo DiBiagio of the Norwegian Geotechnical Institute.
This is a case history written by Andrew Ridley. It covers the monitoring of a clay embankment where the act of installing instrumentation may have resulted in a problem that wasn’t present before the instrumentation was installed.
It shows how flushable piezometers can be used to record positive and negative pore water pressures.
Further information can be found in the following paper:
Ridley A.M. Relationships between climate, vegetation, pore water pressures and the serviceability of clay slopes. Italian Geotechnical Journal Anno XLVI – n.3, luglio-settembre 2012. pp15-28.
Articles
Share your experiences (good or bad) with instrumentation and monitoring, with users of this website.