CONSOLIDATION TEST

OBJECTIVE

To determine the settlements due to primary consolidation of soil by conducting one dimensional test. 

NEED AND SCOPE

The test is conducted to determine the settlement due to primary consolidation. To determine :

1. Rate of consolidation under normal load.

UNDRAINED TRIAXIAL TEST

OBJECTIVE

To find the shear of the soil by Undrained Triaxial Test.

 NEED AND SCOPE OF THE TEST

The standard consolidated undrained test is compression test, in which the soil specimen is first consolidated under all round pressure in the triaxial cell before failure is brought about by increasing the major principal stress.

It may be perform with or without measurement of pore pressure although for most applications the measurement of pore pressure is

UNCONFINED COMPRESSION TEST

OBJECTIVE

determine shear parameters of cohesive soil

NEED AND SCOPE OF THE EXPERIMENT

It is not always possible to conduct the bearing capacity test in the field. Some times it is cheaper to take the undisturbed soil sample and test its strength in the laboratory. Also to choose the best material for the embankment, one has to conduct strength tests on the samples selected. Under these conditions it is easy to perform the unconfined compression test on undisturbed and remoulded soil sample. Now we will investigate experimentally the strength of a given soil sample.

 PLANNING AND ORGANIZATION