PURPOSES : For the compaction control on the subgrade layer, dynamic cone penetration test (DCPT) is being applied to the Korea pavement subgrade construction guidelines. The existing equation in the Korean guidelines for estimating the resilient modulus, MR, from the DCPT test result penetration rate (PR), is a correlation developed from a small amount of data and does not consider the degree of compression. Therefore, this study attempts to propose an advanced MR-DCPT PR correlation through the correction of existing data and additional field tests. METHODS : The in-situ DCPT tests were conducted according to the types of subgrade soils in the field. Thereafter, the existing guideline‘s data were collected and corrected with the degree of compaction, R. RESULTS : In this study, the correlation coefficient is improved such that it is considerably higher than the existing equation using additional field data and converting the data used in the existing equation into data with over 95% degree of compaction. CONCLUSIONS : Through verification, it was found that the relative errors of the proposed correlations in this study were reduced when compared with the existing equation.

PURPOSES : For compaction control on the subgrade layer, the simple and economical test DCPT (Dynamic Cone Penetrometer Test) is being applied to the Korea Pavement Design Guide. However, compaction control is now difficult and to conduct in the field and is not performed in practice because the compaction degree is evaluated via the field density test as a pretreatment step when the compaction management process is evaluated by DCPT at the same time. Therefore, this study tried to propose a method considering an evaluation for the compaction degree using DCPT, via laboratory tests and field tests. METHODS: The in-situ DCPT tests were conducted according to the types of subgrade soils in the field. Afterward, the field density tests for the compaction degree (R) of field samples and the experiments using DCPT were performed simultaneously in a self-made test container in the lab. RESULTS: Through the DCPT test, compaction degree evaluation from the correlations proposed in this study was determined to be possible. Additional field tests could verify the proposed correlations between compaction degree with DCPT PR on the subgrade. CONCLUSIONS: For the evaluation of the subgrade compaction degree using dynamic CPT, the correlations between compaction degree and DCPT PR on the subgrade layer are proposed from laboratory tests and field tests using DCPT and field density tests.