PRESSUREMETER: A PROMISING APPARATUS FOR PAVEMENT DESIGN.
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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.