Insitu digital profiling of soil to rock strength from drilling ...
Introduction. Drilling a cylindrical hole of about 100 mm in diameter and tens to hundreds meters in depth in ground with a drilling machine is a common, necessary, and important work in geoengineering and geoscience (Fig. 1).1, 2 The hydraulic rotary drilling (Fig. 1a) is a common and necessary work in ground investigations. 3, 4 The drilling can recover the samples of soils and/or rocks ...