Site investigation boreholes

Percussion drilling g
soils/soft clay rocks core recovery

Rotary R t coring i
soil or rock >100m deep core recovery

Rock probing
rotary percussion rig soil or rock no core recovery

Rotary rig

Core bit

Core drilling

Rock core

Total Core Recovery (R)

Summed length of core recovered R= Length drilled
Depends upon: quality of the rock mass? stability t bilit of/lack f/l k of f vibration ib ti i in, th the d drill ill rig i choice of core barrel/skill of the operator

Rock Quality Designation (RQD) or Modified M difi d C Core R Recovery

x i RQD Q = L
xi = lengths g of individual p pieces of core 10 cm L is the total length of the drill run

Indirect Methods of determination of f RQF

Seismic Method RQD= (Vf / Vl )2 * 100 R ti of Ratio f velocity l it i in th the fi field ld t to th that ti in th the l lab b Volumetric Count RQD = 115- 3.3* Jv where Jv is a measure of number of joints within a unit volume of rock mass