Expansion of an automated system for determining soil parameters using in-situ tests

Abstract

An ongoing research project aims to create an automated parameter determination (APD) framework relying on a graph-based approach for determining constitutive model parameters from in-situ tests. The system requires two spreadsheets as inputs. One spreadsheet defines the parameters, while the other spreadsheet specifies the correlations. The system connects parameters and methods by generating paths between them and calculates the value(s) for different parameters. So far, the frame-work focused on determining soil parameters based on the cone penetration test (CPT). This paper focuses on expanding the framework by adding the dilatometer test (DMT). A new database of correlations for the DMT is compiled. The expanded APD framework successfully calculates soil parameters for coarse and fine-grained soils based on CPT as well as DMT data. Validat-ing the output of the system, assessing the accuracy of the derived parameters, and connecting soil parameters to constitutive model parameters are part of ongoing research.