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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