المسح الزلزالي البئري و الجيوتكنيكي لتربة موقع فندق الخيام محافظة كربلاء

Abstract EN

This study carried out the seismic crosshole and geotechnical surveys for Al-Khiam hotel in sacred city of Karbala.

Six boreholes were drilled in the study site, four of them for field geotechnical and laboratory tests.

Twenty two seismic crosshole testes were conducted for depth between (1-10) m.

For natural ground surface.

The field tests were (30) at depths reaching (1-15) m.

finally, seventy four laboratory tests of soil and water samples at variable depths were conducted.

The results of these surveys show that soil of the study area consists of five sequence layers, the weak zones, and their depths were determined, then suggested suitable method to improve it for this object.