Laboratory Testing Equipment (Static)

 

Soil Classification:

  • Sieve Analysis, Unit Weight, Water Content, Atterberg Limits, Carbonate Content, Specific Gravity, Organic Material, etc.

Static Strength of Soil:

  Automated high-pressure Triaxial tests on soil samples with confining pressures up to 4.1 MPa
    • Unconsolidated undrained (UU)
• Consolidated undrained (CU)
• Consolidated drained (CD)
  • Direct Simple Shear (DSS) 

Consolidation Tests:

  • Automated incremental consolidation capable of delivering vertical pressures up to 6 MPa

• Automated constant rate of strain consolidation capable of delivering vertical pressures up to 6 MPa

 

Laboratory Testing Equipment (Dynamic)

 

Resonant Column Test:

  • High-pressure Resonant Column capable of testing isotropically consolidated samples at confining pressures up to 3 MPa
  • Torsional excitation
• Flexural excitation

Cyclic Direct Simple Shear:

  • High-capacity cyclic direct simple shear with a 10kN force actuator capable of delivering input frequencies up to 2 Hz with:
  • Cyclic stress control
• Cyclic strain control
• Static strain-rate control

Cyclic Triaxial:

• High-pressure cyclic dynamic triaxial capable of testing samples at confining pressures up to 1.5 MPa with either cyclic stress or strain controlled loading.







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