INTEGRATING GEO-STATISTICS AND GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS IN GEOTECHNICAL SOIL PROFILING | ||||
| ERJ. Engineering Research Journal | ||||
| Article 7, Volume 38, Issue 2, April 2015, Page 137-143 PDF (925.03 K) | ||||
| Document Type: Original Article | ||||
| DOI: 10.21608/erjm.2015.66801 | ||||
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| Authors | ||||
| MOHAMMED ABD EL FADIL ISMAIL1; ALI ABD EL FATAH2; ASHRAF M HEFNY2 | ||||
| 1Department of Structural Engineering, Ain Shams University. | ||||
| 2DEPARTMENT OF STRUCTURAL ENGINEERING, AIN SHAMS UNIVERSITY | ||||
| Abstract | ||||
| Since it s evolution, Geotechnical engineering is considered one of the sciences that deeply based on uncertainties. These uncertainties are attributed to two facts. First fact, the formulas used in geotechnical engineering are empirical formulas and could be deeply affected by the nonhomogeneity of soil formation. The second fact is that always the soil is being characterized through a group of boreholes that are considered representative for the whole site, which could result in the missing of some anomalies in soil composition. Hence, geo-technical engineers are always looking for a technique, that can be used in dealing with these uncertainties. Several techniques were adopted starting from the sixties of the previous century like knowledge base expert systems, finite element analysis and finally geo-statistics. But the most sidelined of these techniques was geo-statistics due to several reasons. Hence, this paper tries to introduce geostatistics focusing on its applications in geotechnical engineering specially in soil profiling. It discusses the reason behind the fact that still the actual implementation of Geo-statistics in Geotechnical engineering is without real presence in the traditional work of any geotechnical engineer. Moreover, it introduces a look ahead towards actual implementation of Geo-statistics in soil profiling through the integration between one of the most mature geo-statistical software (Sgems) and the GIS software which is ARCGIS of ESRI | ||||
| Keywords | ||||
| Geo-statistics; GIS; Sgems; ArcGIS; variogram | ||||
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