GEOTECHNICAL ENGINEERING LABORATORIES
VENUE
Ground Floor, Civil Engineering Department
University of Engineering & Technology, Lahore.
Objectives
To provide geotechnical testing facilities for under-graduate and graduate classes
related to their academic courses.
To provide research facilities for post graduate scholars.
To provide geotechnical testing and consultancy services to construction industry.
Laboratory Administration:
Head, Geotech. & Transportation Engineering Division
Prof. Dr. Aziz Akbar
Laboratory Director:
Prof. Dr Khalid Farooq
Laboratory Dy. Director
Engr. Hassan M. Shahzad
Lab. Staff:
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Mr. Aslam Fareed
Mr. M. Shoaib
Mr. Saeed Akhtar
Mr. M. Sadiq
Mr. Ansar Abbas
Laboratory Equipments Available:
Sieve sets and shakers
Direst shear test machines
Triaxial test machines
Unconfined compression test machines
SPT
Plate Load Test
Automatic Compactor
Relative Density Test
Field Density
CBR Testing machines
Specific Gravity
Hydrometer
(Supervisor)
(Lab Assistant)
(Lab Assistant)
(Lab Attendant)
(Lab Attendant )
Atterberg Limits
Consolidometers,
Permeameters
Dilatometer
Pressuremeter
Lab Softwares
DS6
Picolog
Courses Related to the Laboratory
Geotechnical Engineering-I
Geotechnical Engineering-II
Pavement and Foundation
List of Experiments
Geotechnical Engineering-I
Determination of Moisture content
o By oven dry method (ASTM D 2216)
o By speedy moisture meter (ASTM D 4944)
Determination of specific gravity of soils (ASTM D 854)
Grain size analysis of soil (ASTM D 422)
o Sieve analysis
o Hydrometer analysis
Determination of Atterbergs Limit
o Liquid limit
o Plastic Limit
o Shrinkage Limit
Determination of field density of soil
o Core cutter method (ASTM D 2937)
o Sand replacement method (ASTM D 4914)
Performance of Compaction Test
o Standard AASHTO method (ASTM D 698)
o Modified AASHTO method (ASTM D 1557)
Performance of consolidation test on soil sample (ASTM D 2435)
Performance of Permeability test on soil samples (ASTM D 2434)
o Constant head permeameter
o Falling head permeameter
Geotechnical Engineering-II
Calibration of speedy moisture meter (ASTM D 4944)
Performance of Index Density test and Unit weight of granular soils (ASTM D
4253 & 4254)
Performance of Direct shear test (ASTM D 3080)
Unconfined Compressive Strength of cohesive soils (ASTM D 2166)
Performance of triaxial compression test (ASTM D 2850)
Effect of cement stabilization on compressive strength of soil
Performance of standard penetration test (ASTM D 1586)
Pavement & Foundations
Calibration of Pressure Transducer and Displacement Transducer
Demonstration of Pressuremeter (PMT)
Demonstration of Dilatometer (DMT)
Design of flexible pavement by Group Index Method
Design of Flexible pavement by California Bearing Ratio (CBR) method
Design of Rigid pavement by Westerguards method
Demonstration of Benkelman beam
Research Projects:
Stabilization of subgrade soil using Tensar
In-situ testing using Pressuremeter and Dilatometer
Stabilization of expansive soils using different additives
Students at Work
Performing Atterberg Limits Test
Performance of CBR Test
Plate Load Test
Dilatometer Test
Digital Triaxial Testing