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University of Massachusetts Amherst

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2013

Cyclic t-bar testing

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Development Of Miniature Full Flow And Model Pipeline Probes For Testing Of Box Core Samples Of Surficial Seabed Sediments, Adriane G. Boscardin May 2013

Development Of Miniature Full Flow And Model Pipeline Probes For Testing Of Box Core Samples Of Surficial Seabed Sediments, Adriane G. Boscardin

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The box corer is a relatively new tool used in the geotechnical community for collection of soft seabed sediments. Miniature full flow and model pipeline probes were developed as tools to characterize and obtain soil parameters of soft seabed sediments collected in the box core for design of offshore pipelines and analysis of shallow debris flows. Probes specifically developed for this study include the miniature t-bar, ball, motorized vane (MV), and toroid. The t-bar, ball, and MV were developed to measure intact and remolded undrained shear strengths (su and sur). The t-bar and ball can obtain continuous …