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Cone Penetration Test (CPT)
Video of the CPT, courtesy of Mehmet Tumay, LSU/LTRC

http://www.coe.lsu.edu/facilities/revegits-cimcpt.html

CPT-Based Probabilistic Soil Classification Zhang/Tumay

There is a selection of software for beam on elastic foundations, sheet piles, axial piles, & lateral piles available for free from Delft University (and slope stability):

http://dutcgeo.ct.tudelft.nl/software/software_e.htm

The Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) has free downloadable software including SPILE (vertical pile capacity), EMBANK (settlement of embankments), CBEAR (bearing capacity of shallow foundations), COM624 (lateral pile spring model), and others located at:

http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/bridge/geosoft.htm

The Delft Geotechnical Lab has written an extensive FEM program called Plaxis which is quite powerful but costs around US $4000. An intro version is about $750 US.

http://www.plaxis.nl/

An extensive listing of geotech software is at:

http://www.ggsd.com/

Several downloadable programs and links to geotech software sites given by the Geotech Virtual Library:

http://geotech.civen.okstate.edu/wwwvl/soft-gvl.htm

Oasys Ltd, the software house of Arup (www.arup.com) international consulting engineers, now offers all of its geotechnical and structural engineering software FREE to universities. The Oasys GEO suite provides programs for slope, flexible wall, vertical displacement, retaining wall stability, tunnel settlement, pile and soil finite element analysis.

http://www.oasys-software.com

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