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Geotechnical Lab

Location:
St. Benilde Hall #111
Faculty Supervisor:
Dr. K. Madhavan

Lab Description:

This lab focuses primarily on the civil engineering field. With tools to make, break, cut, and test different concrete and soil mixtures, this lab allows a boundless study of the effects of different actions on components found in most structures today.

Equipment:


• Ro-Top (Mechanical) Sieve Shaker

• Double Wall Laboratory Oven

• Automatic Soil Compactor

• Electronic Balance

• Proctor Compaction (3) 

• Sand Cone Apparatus (3)
• Atterberg Limit (4)
• Permeameter (3)

• Sieve (4)

• Sample Extruder

• Unconfined Compression Tester

• Cone Penetrometer

• CBR Tester (Triaxial Tester)
• Direct Shear Tester with Data Acquisition System

• Pneumatic Consolidation Apparatus with Data Acquisition System

• Test Mark Concrete Tester with LX-5000 Digital System and 2 load cells at 20K capacity (for 3"X6" concrete cylinders) and 300K capacity (for 6"X12" concrete cylinders)