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Abstract
Civil engineering structures are sometimes constructed on cemented soil. Most of the sites in the newly developed cities in Egypt contain dry cemented sand deposits where there are long dry seasons and the ground water table exists at great depths, if it exists. The evaluation of in-situ engineering properties of dry cemented sand deposits is a challenging problem for geotechnical engineers; this is because cemented sands are subject to disturbance upon sampling for laboratory testing. In addition, common correlations between engineering properties and field penetration tests are mainly directed toward un-cemented sands and are not supported with large body of data about cemented sands. One of the major options for the engineer is to use in-situ Plate Load Test to characterize the soil compressibility parameters, however; in most of the cases, Plate Load Test does not provides any data about the shear strength parameters of the soil. Therefore, there is a room for innovation and introducing new field tests for the characterization of cemented sands in order to supplement and/or complement existing techniques.