Civil Engineering

Geotechnical Laboratory

 

 

Major equipment Available/ Likely to be made available

Testing Facilities for

1. Electronic C.B.R. Apparatus

 

2. Direct shear Apparatus

 

3. Triaxial shear test apparatus

 

4. Casagrande instrument

 

5. Plastic limit device

 

6. Shrinkage limit device

 

7. Core cutter & sand replacement

 

8.Constant head & falling head Permeability apparatus

 

9. Core cutting & compressive testing machine

 

10. Consolidation test apparatus

 

11. Plate load test

 

12. Core Cutter

-Physical tests on the soil

-Moisture content

-Specific gravity of soil

-Grain size Analysis - (Sieve Analysis)

-Permeability by constant head & falling head Triaxial shear test

-Proctor compation test

-Direct shear Test

-Triaxial shear test

-Field Density determinations

-Unconfined compression test

-To determine compressive strength of core log

-To determine compressibility characteristics of soil

-To determine SBC