Geotechnical Engineering

Field Testing

• Boring and representative/undisturbed sampling
• Standard penetration test
• Dynamic cone penetration test
• Static cone penetration test
• Plate load test
• Block resonance test
• Wave propagation test
• Electrical resistivity test
• Insitu direct shear test
• Prototype pile vibration test

Laboratory Testing

SOILS -

• Programmable monotonic and cyclic triaxial testing (GDS) system
• Programmable consolidation testing (GDS) system
• Multi unit consolidation testing device
• Motorised direct shear testing device
• Motorised vane shear testing device
• Large scale direct shear test facility (Sample size - 1.5m x 1.5m and 0.7m x 0.7m) * Vibratory pile driving
• Liquefaction studies
• Test tanks for testing of foundations with different water table levels
• Facilities for testing of rigid, flexible and reinforced earth retaining walls

ROCKS -

• Cutting and polishing of rock
• High pressure triaxial testing machine with pressure upto 700 kg per sq.cm
• Programmable compression testing machine (3000 KN capacity)
• Point load strength index of rocks

Instrumentation

• 100 channel data acquisition system
• Accelerometers
• Vibration meters
• Amplifiers
• Earth pressure cells
• Velocity pick-ups
• Pen recorders
• Wave velocity meters