EMeRG3r – FUI Project

Inspired by the work carried out on the Panda® and based on new theories, the challenge of the project is to apply to our equipment a new technology that improves the quality and quantity of information obtained from the ground during a dynamic variable energy penetrometer survey.

The objective of the EMeRG3r project is thus to design the 3rd generation of dynamic penetrometers that will make it possible, on the one hand, to obtain the peak resistance of the ground being surveyed and, on the other hand, to determine, by analysing and processing the signals recorded during the ramming process, additional parameters governing the ground deformation behaviour involved when the cone is driven in, translated by the load-depression curve of the ground at the peak.

This curve is used to determine, for each ramming stroke, resistance and deformation parameters such as dynamic and pseudo-static resistance, penetrometric modulus, compressional and shear wave velocities, and a ground damping coefficient for each ramming stroke.