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CFEM 2022 — Geotechnical Instrumentation and Monitoring

About this reference

This is an original, open digest of Chapter 25 — Geotechnical Instrumentation and Monitoring from the Canadian Foundation Engineering Manual (CFEM), 4th Edition (2022), authored by Pierre Choquet. It is a chapter-level summary with an elaborated reference section — it is not a reproduction of the copyrighted source text. The CFEM is published by the Canadian Geotechnical Society; the original chapter and its figures remain the copyright of the author, the publisher and the credited suppliers. This digest is provided for education and orientation; consult the original for design use.

The Canadian Foundation Engineering Manual (CFEM) is the Canadian geotechnical profession's principal reference work. The 4th Edition (2022) added a full chapter on instrumentation — Chapter 25, Geotechnical Instrumentation and Monitoring — written by Pierre Choquet, Dr.-Eng., P. Eng., a recognised authority on vibrating-wire instrumentation and automated data acquisition.

At 48 pages, Chapter 25 is a compact, unusually practical survey of the whole field: what to measure, with what, how to read it, and how to read it automatically. Its distinguishing strength is the breadth of its reference apparatus — the structured reading list in §25.2, Geotechnical Instrumentation and Monitoring Information Sources, backed by a 45-entry reference list. That apparatus is the reason this page exists: it is a ready-made map of the authoritative standards, textbooks, and regulatory manuals behind modern monitoring practice, and it is elaborated in full on the chapter page below.

Scope of this reference

# Chapter What it covers
1 Chapter 25 — Geotechnical Instrumentation and Monitoring The full chapter digest, including the elaborated §25.2 reference apparatus

Full documents (PDF)

Bản dịch tiếng Việt đầy đủ — Chương 25 (53 pp., A4). Bản dịch trọn vẹn toàn bộ Chương 25 của CFEM 2022, kèm 29 hình minh họa và bảng biểu, trình bày bằng phông Times New Roman.

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Original English chapter — CFEM 2022, Chapter 25: Geotechnical Instrumentation and Monitoring (48 pp., v7, 2022‑02‑08), authored by Pierre Choquet, Dr.-Eng., P. Eng. Reproduced here as published by the Canadian Geotechnical Society (CGS) for reference.

Download the original Chapter 25 (English, PDF)   Publisher page — Canadian Geotechnical Society

Why this chapter matters in this knowledge base

Chapter 25 is the standards-and-practice backbone the rest of this library leans on:

  • Its information-sources list (§25.2) names exactly the standards (ASTM, ISO, DIN), textbooks (Dunnicliff "Red Book", De Rubertis, Sharon & Eberhardt, Hoek), and regulation manuals (USACE, Reclamation, FERC, ICOLD) used across this site.
  • Its automated data-acquisition material (§25.15–25.16) maps directly onto the site's vendor-neutral ADAQS six-layer architecture.
  • Its instrument-by-instrument sections cross-reference the site's Dunnicliff and FHWA digests.

How to use this reference

Safety and currency. Standards are revised on their own cycles (ISO 18674, ASTM D18.23, DIN 4150 among them). Always verify the current edition of any standard or manual before relying on it for a design or regulatory submission.

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