• Soil And Rock Laboratory

Soil and Rock Laboratory Testing

Soil and rock samples can be obtained from the site subsurface by several means and some of those methods, as seen in the following in-situ services section, will give immediate results of the engineering properties of material being retrieved. The laboratory at MEA preserves and carefully stores samples collected in the field in order to get accurate representations of site conditions when tested.

Classification and Index Properties

  • Atterberg Limits and Moisture Content
  • Mechanical Grain size Analysis
  • Soil and Rock Core Logging
  • Hydrometer Particle Size Analysis
  • Clay Mineralogy
  • Grain Specific Gravity
  • Corrosiveness (pH)
  • Rock Durability Index Testing
  • Standard Proctor Compaction
  • Modified Proctor Compaction
  • Pin Hole Dispersion
  • Slaked Durability Index
  • Unit Weight and Density

Strength Testing

  • Point-Load
  • Splitting Tensile Strength
  • Triaxial Compression (UU, CU, CD)
  • Unconfined (Uniaxial) Compression
  • California Bearing Ratio (CBR)
  • Variable Rate Direct Shear Tests

Swell and Consolidation Testing

  • Expansion Index Consolidometer
  • One-Dimensional Consolidation
  • One Swell/Consolidation
  • One-Dimensional Swell
  • PVC test

Permeability Testing

  • Constant Head Permeability
  • Falling Head Permeability



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