Development of an Electronic Data Gathering System for Geotechnical Engineering (EDGGE) Unit for Highway Systems

摘要

To permit the geotechnical discipline to respond to the demands placed on them from the rapid improvements in structural behavior, the quality and quantity of soil testing data, and structure/pavement monitoring data, must increase. In the determination of soil properties through direct testing the apparatus are used to make and display the measurement of a property. The basic measurement required no interpretation just the exact recording of the test value. That is why this application lends itself so well to automated data acquisition. By electronically measuring and recording test values the human element can be removed from a test, thus eliminating a variable and bringing the process closer to the true definition of a test. Besides higher quality test results, instrumentation and data acquisition can increase lab efficiency. This can be a major attraction with the tighter budgets and the 'more bang for the buck' philosophy being impressed on many of todays managers.