RT info:eu-repo/semantics/bookPart T1 Latest experiences in complex soil investigation in the Spanish Plateau of Castile A1 Ortiz Palacio, Santiago A1 Porres Benito, José Ángel K1 Geología K1 Geology K1 Física K1 Physics K1 Arqueología-Burgos K1 Archaeology-Burgos AB In recent years, many geotechnical specialists must confront the need of accomplishing difficultdesigning tasks under very restricted budgets (tasks such as the design of complex foundations, avoidingslope movements, the development of earth containing structures, evaluating and repairing settlements, etc.).This implies that soil in-situ probing and lab testing may be quite limited on many occasions. Therefore, itusually falls on the specialists the responsibility of optimizing the resources at hand to fully characterize themorphological and mechanical soil qualities, gaining the best safety factors as possible in the process. In orderto illustrate this challenging duty of optimization of the problem of quality soil characterization vs. probingbudget, some of the latest and most interesting of the authors’ experiences in the Spanish Plateau of Castilewill be covered. PB CRC Press SN 978-04-15660-70-9 YR 2013 FD 2013 LK http://hdl.handle.net/10259/8618 UL http://hdl.handle.net/10259/8618 LA eng NO Trabajo presentado en: Fourth International Conference on Geotechnical and Geophysical Site Characterisation, ISC'4, held at the Porto de Galinhas (Pernanbuco), Brazil, 18-21 September 2012. DS Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Burgos RD 09-may-2024