Apparatus and process for an off-surface cone penetrometer sensor

Patent · 29 April 2003

OSTI ID:921312

Smail, Timothy R ^[1]; French, Phillip J ^[2]; Huffman, Russell K ^[3]

---

1. Augusta, GA
2. Evans, GA
3. Martinez, GA

A cone penetrometer is provided having a pivoting arm which deploys a variable distance from the surface of the cone penetrometer. Sensors placed on the end of the deployable arm provide for data collection outside a compression zone created by the insertion of the cone penetrometer.

• Research Organization: Westinghouse Savannah River Company, L.L.C. (Aiken, SC)
• Sponsoring Organization: United States Department of Energy
• DOE Contract Number: AC09-96SR18500
• Assignee: Westinghouse Savannah River Company, L.L.C. (Aiken, SC)
• Patent Number(s): 6,553,852
• OSTI ID: 921312
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English