Assessment of the relationship between clay soils consistency and kinematic parameters of elastic waves

Abstract

Assessment of the water-physical characteristics of soils by indirect geophysical indicators is simpler. Indirect indicators provide an opportunity to characterize various volumes of the researched environment. The article presents the results of determining the kinematic parameters of elastic waves of clay soils at different values of the liquidity index. In the transition from soils of very stiff consistency to soils with stiff and firm-stiff consistency, a correlation is observed between the ratio of the secondary, primary wave velocities, and the values of the liquidity index of clay soils.