The paper analyses the implementation of European standards: PN-EN ISO 14688:2018 Geotechnical investigation and testing - Identification and classification of soil - Part 1: Identification and description and Part 2: Principles for a classification (hereinafter ISO) in Polish geotechnical practice. Although PN-EN ISO 14688 standards have been a part of the Polish standards scope since 2006, daily practice shows that their proper understanding and use still causes a lot of problems. On the basis of daily experience from reading archival geological and engineering reports and studies, the authors were able to indicate the most common issues in attempts to identify and describe soils according to the aforementioned ISO standards.
The principles of identification and description of soil presented in the PN-EN ISO 14688-1:2018-05 standard are clear and easy to apply. The most important step in the identification process is the determination of the primary fraction in terms of plastic behaviour. The standard provides 8 tests to distinguish between silt and silt and clay as primary fractions determining the geological and engineering properties of soil.
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