A site investigation has been carried out for Public Buildings Department for a two storey Primary School at Mansfield Park. The proposed design is for a concrete building with load bearing walls, seated everywhere upon driven piles (Frankipiles) with...

The site for a proposed new primary school in the western suburbs of Whyalla, was investigated using two percussion drill holes. Results of the drilling and foundation characteristics of the materials penetrated are discussed.

Open tube sampling in five bores entered stiff mottled brown silty clays at 26 to 35 feet, in the school grounds, extending to at least 50 feet. Overlying sediments were soft silty clays, clayey silts and unconsolidated sands. These stiff clays are...

The site of a proposed civic building in the town of Whyalla was tested by means of 5 power-auger test holes. These bores revealed aeolian fine sands and silts and red-brown sandy clay overlying bedrock, probably Corunna Conglomerate. The soil...

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Six hand auger test holes disclosed alluvial type soils of the Plympton Association over all but a small area in the north western part of the site. For the southern part of the site the use of rigid strip footings of adequate bearing area, such as...

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Eleven power auger test holes disclosed steeply dipping Tapleys Hill Slate bedrock on the eastern part of the site. No bedrock was located over the western part, although drilling proceeded to 30’. Gravel horizons of more than adequate bearing...

The site has been tested through construction of three percussion boreholes to depths of 50’ to 60’ and a number of shallow probes extended to the hardened surface of a limestone horizon, encountered at approximately 11’. A test pit 8’ x 5’6” and 11’...

The soil on the site examined is a poorly consolidated dune sand, partly solonized. The sub-station building is extensively cracked, particularly in the south west, and North West corners. The damage has been caused initially by foundation settlement,...

In soil test for 2 storey building, six machine auger holes approximately 12 feet deep on a small site in the south west corner of Town Acre 392, Adelaide, show soil type BS 2 or BS 2b, for which C.S.I.R.O. recommendation is surface strip footings.

Test boring (machine auger and percussion) to 100 feet for a new library at the Supreme Court, Adelaide, shows approximately 50 feet of clay on 30 feet of limestone overlying silts. The uppermost clays (10-24 feet) are plastic and are underlaid by...

Foundation testing of site for Grosvenor Hotel, Adelaide, extension southward by hand and machine auger and percussion boring shows below proposed basement level approximately 6 feet of clay overlying limestone which is probably about 8 feet thick,...

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Six power-auger test bores were put down on the sites of proposed extensions to the Port Pirie hospital. The water table was found to stand at a depth of only 2 ft. 3 in. below the natural surface. Whilst the sequence of clay strata passed through...

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A percussion borehole was put down in the yard of the offices at present occupied by the Engineering and Water Supply Department, the site of the proposed new Government Buildings at Port Lincoln. The bore revealed well compacted sands and sandy...