Routine Tests

cutting section of core

Preparing section of core sample

  • Classification Tests
  • Index Tests
  • Oedometer Consolidation
  • Triaxial UU, CIU, CID
  • Simple shear box
  • Uniaxial compression tests on rocks
  • Effective stress condition: UU w/pwp, CIU, CID, CRS consolidation
  • Total stress condition: TV, MU, UU, Fall cone

Advanced Testing

Triaxial testing

  • Direct simple shear: static and cyclic
  • Triaxial (c/e: static and dynamic)
    • Consolidated Kzero undrained
    • Consolidated Unisotropic undrained
    • Consolidated Isotropic undrained
    • Stress Path
  • Dynamic Cyclic Triaxial
    • Liquefaction analysis
  • Resonant Column
    • Determination of shear modulus (Gmax)