Training Overview

Master mechanical tests on soils and rocks (consolidation, shearing, compression, triaxial)

Duration of the training:
3
Days
BTP Laboratory operators
  • participatory method
  • Practical cases
Description and implementation of standard mechanical tests on soils
  • Consolidation Test, shearing, and simple Compression
  • Triaxial Test, CBR, PROCTOR, densitometer with a membrane
  • Using the test results
  • Determination of soil parameters for testing operations
  • Oedometrics: the importance and the duration of a soil settlement
  • Simple shearing, simple compression, Triaxial, CBR, and PROCTOR
  • Interpretation and editing test reports
  • Brief description of the test type , and the followed procedure
  • Presentation of results and formulating recommendations