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FCE 311 GEOTECHNICAL ENGINEERING
LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS
Department of Civil & Construction Engineering
University of Nairobi
OBJECTIVES
• Geotechnical investigations are performed to obtain information on the physical properties of soil and rock around a site to design earthworks and foundations for proposed structures and for repair of distress to earthworks and structures caused by subsurface conditions
• A geotechnical investigation will include surface exploration and subsurface exploration of a site. Sometimes, geophysical methods are used to obtain data about sites. Subsurface exploration usually involves soil sampling and laboratory tests of the soil samples retrieved.
• Tests will be conducted in groups.
LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS
• Liquid Limit Determination
• Plastic Limit Determination
• Dry Density Determination using Sand Replacement
• Particle Size Distribution
• Compaction
• Specific Gravity of Soil
LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS1. Title
2. Scope and Objectives: Purpose of experiment clearly defined
3. Description of Apparatus: Describe the Apparatus, Draw a neat and accurate diagram
4. Methodology: Describe the procedure, Describe the preparation of the specimen
5. Results and Analysis: Present / tabulate the results, Neat calculations (show formulae), Neat graphs
6. Experimental Errors: Discussion on experimental errors
7. Discussion
8. Conclusion
9. Recommendation
10.References
SUBMISSION• Submit individual report with Report
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