IS 4434 : 1978 Code of practice for in-situ vane shear test for soils

UDC 624.131.439.5 : 006.76 CED 43
Reaffirmed 2021

1 Scope

1.1 This standard covers the procedure of conducting in-situvane shear test in saturated cohesive deposits for determiningtheir inplace shearing resistance. Two methods of the test, namely,testing from bottom of a bore-hole and by direct penetration fromground surface, are covered.

2 References

IS 2 : 1960   Rules forrounding off numerical values