Talk:Fall cone test

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I suggest renaming this article "Fall cone test". Adding a redirect for Cone Penetrometer, for now. But the Cone penetrometer is a much more general piece of equipment that is not used primarily to measure Atterberg Limits.

reference can be added to powrie, W. Soil mechanics, ISBN 0-415-31156-X page 42 Blkutter (talk) 22:06, 11 August 2010 (UTC)

I just moved the article and added the reference.Blkutter (talk) 22:37, 11 August 2010 (UTC)


 * I'm not sure moving it was the best idea. The test is unfortunately referred to as the "Cone Penetrometer Test" in the literature.  It would probably be better to either make this article Cone Penetrometer Test (liquid limit), or just go back to Cone Penetrometer Test, and have disambiguation notices at the top of this article and Cone Penetration Test.  Argyriou (talk) 01:03, 24 October 2010 (UTC)

needs reference
BS-1377 part 2 Argyriou (talk) 03:52, 8 May 2015 (UTC)

Request Deletion
New to wikipedia, but I'm requesting that this page be deleted (or merged into the CPT page) and to redirect 'Fall cone test' to the wikipedia page 'Cone penetration test'[1], as both pages describe the same test, but the other article is more complete. Note that I'm editing this from a library, so previous edits made from this IP were not made by me.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cone_penetration_test

147.41.128.11 (talk) 23:48, 1 September 2016 (UTC)


 * They are not the same test. -- Paleorthid (talk) 01:03, 30 January 2019 (UTC)

History of Fall Cone Test
Hello! I was looking into the origins of the fall cone test, and Public Roads: A Journal of Highway Research from 1927 seems to suggest that the test originated with the Swedish Railway Commission. I found it in the references of this article, which also cites the "GEOTECHNICAL COMMISSION OF THE SWEDISH STATE RAILWAYS, 1914 to 1922," that I was unable to find the full text for. It would be nice to find to get the official name for the company, as the articles differ.

The description of the test is similar, with the depth that the cone penetrates the soil indicating to the company the plasticity of the soil and multiple measurements being taken to derive a final answer. Weights were used and varying angles of cones, including a 30° cone.

Should this be included? LiminalZeitgeist (talk) 20:04, 26 June 2023 (UTC)