Cone penetration testing

-characterized geotechnical properties and is an appropriate analogue for highlands lunar regolith in terrestrial engineering studies. Cone penetrometer testing (CPT) measurements of LHS-1 reveal a...

were achieved using Plackett-Burman, steepest ascent, and Box-Behnken experimental designs. The model was validated through excavation and cone penetration tests. The relative error between the sim...

ro.2025.04.054 1-s2.0-S0094576525002541 10.1016/j.actaastro.2025.04.054 S0094-5765(25)00254-1 A modified Prandtl's model for predicting the bearing capacity of lunar soil ground under extraterrestr...

At specific densities, GRC-1 matches the in situ cone penetration data measured by Apollo astronauts on the Moon

ity to increasing ice content due to difficulties in experimentation at cryogenic conditions. To display the capability of a simple conical penetrometer to discern saturation levels of icy regolith...

ies of the lunar soil. The results indicated the load that the lunar soil can bear increases with the increase of the bearing area, but the bearing capacity weakens with the increase of the porosit...

easing water content, influencing not only indirect tensile strength (ITS) but also other mechanical behaviours such as slope stability and bearing capacity. Previous research on the JSC-1 lunar so...

with external power and penetrators with internal power. A typical representative of penetrators with external power is the Self-Recording Penetrometer used in Apollo missions. It is used to test t...