Soil Descriptions—Quo Vadis?

Abstract

This paper comments on the status of soil description to BS5930 in ground investigation contracts, gives a briet historical review of the development of modern soil description and deals with problems created by the British Soil Classification System. Proposals are made for working with the current Code and recommendations for the form of a future redraft are given.

European soil classification system for engineering purposes

“…Initial efforts to classify soil for engineering applications are strictly related to the classification according to the size of grains, i.e. according to the grain size composition of soil [1]. Such systems were based on soil texture i.e.…”