The Board of Directors had awarded the 1st award under the ISTVS Research Grants Program to Prof. Schalk Els, University of Pretoria, South Africa, and Prof. Corina Sandu, Virginia Tech, USA, for their proposed research “Systematic Testing and Parameterization of Soft Soil for Vehicular Applications.”
The work done in the first year of this research included a technical survey on equipment and techniques for testing and parametrization of soft soil for vehicular applications. The progress of this work is compiled in the following presentation.