GEOTECHNICAL ENGINEERING  LABORATORY

Course Uses:

     CE 353

Capacity (No. of Students):

         20

Location:

     Bldg. 1-105A

Year Established:

         1972

Objectives:

·        Testing laboratory for soil properties and behaviour.

Major Equipment:

·        Compression and consolidation

·        Compaction

·        Direct shear

·        Permeaters

·        Nuclear (density/moisture) device

·        Field density set up

·        CBR (laboratory and field)

Main Experiments:

·        Sieve analysis

·        Hydrometer

·        Consistency limits

·        Specific gravity

·        Compaction

·        Field soil density

·        Permeability

·        Consolidation

·        Unconfined

·        Direct shear

·        Triaxial

·        California Bearing Ratio

Service Facilities (inside and outside KFUPM):

·        Characterization of different soil samples for different university departments and outside projects.