These laboratory facilities provide the capacity to study the physical, chemical and mechanical properties of soil and rock.
Conventional laboratory tests:
- Soil grading/classification and plasticity
- Automated triaxial testing
- Direct shear test
- Permeameters (fixed-wall and flexible-wall; constant head and falling head)
- Conventional oedometer test
- Leaching test device
- Rowe cell
- Vane shear
- Compaction tests
- CBR test
Advanced laboratory tests:
- Pressure plate extractors
- Volumetric pressure plate extractor
- CU-net stress-suction cell
- Relative humidity and temperature probes
- Multi-purpose closed oedometers (suction, net stress, temperature controlled)
- Null-type axis translation device
- Filter paper method
- Osmotic test
- Volume measurement using Clod test and Wax tests
- Oedometer test with pore water pressure and permeability measurement
- Automated triaxial testing for unsaturated soils with volume change measurement (axis-translation technique)
- Chemical tests (mainly with CLEER labs)
- Scanning electron microscopy
- Medical centrifuge
- Geotechnical centrifuge
