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Pressuremeter Experience and Innovation
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Foundation Engineering and Analyses
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Top Award in Engineering
Excellence from Consulting Engineers Council of Oregon, 2000
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Design Excellence Award from Portland District Corps of Engineers, 1998
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Specialties include: P-y curves, pile foundations under lateral load, numerical computer methods in design, insitu pressuremeter (PMT) testing, collapsing arid soils, and soil structure interaction.
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CS3 Certified
Trevor Smith, Ph.D., PE (TX), is a professor of geotechnical and foundation engineering.
He has been teaching, conducting research, and offering pressuremeter capabilitites to consultants for over 20 years.
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Over 1000 prebored PMT tests have been conducted to
characterize a wide range of soils, including difficult soils:
soft silts, silty sands, gravels, sandstone and arid collapsible soils.
Shown above are a matching pair of tests in moisture induced collapsible soils.
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