PRESSUREMETER: A PROMISING APPARATUS FOR PAVEMENT DESIGN. Academic Article uri icon

abstract

  • The author recently designed a pressuremeter specially conceived for pavement engineering. The pressuremeter test consists of placing a cylindrical expandable probe in a 1 in. diameter borehole and inflating the probe. A control unit on the ground surface is used to generate the pressure necessary to inflate the probe.

published proceedings

  • Texas Transportation Researcher

author list (cited authors)

  • Briaud, J. L.

complete list of authors

  • Briaud, JL

publication date

  • January 1980