ABSTRACT

In geotechnical engineering perspectives, sense of concern and appreciation is particularly viewed from the prospective contribution and significance

due to the geomaterial properties determination and its reliability. The application of alternative methods such as geophysical techniques can be increasingly meaningful provided it is able to contribute more than its well-known anomaly detection outcome since the main task and responsibility of engineers was to design and construct a structure safely. Studies which relate the geophysical data to geotechnical properties are rare and less known (Cosenza et al. 2006). Hence based on those issues, this study proposed to establish a study on geophysical techniques specifically using electrical resistivity method which is able to contribute the prediction of basic geotechnical properties thru the establishment of integral analysis between laboratory and field electrical resistivity value by introducing a correction factor, c which able to predict soil density statistically.