Available Experiments

Some of the most important experiments that can be conducted in the Soil Mechanics Laboratory of the Faculty of Civil Engineering are as follows:

Direct Shear Test

Triaxial Compression Test – UU, CU, CD

Unconfined Compression Test

California Bearing Resistance (CBR) Test

Flexural Strength Test

Oedometer Test

California Bearing Resistance (CBR) Test

Primary and Secondary consolidation coefficients

Compressibility and Permeability coefficients during Consolidation

Sieve Analysis

Hydrometer Analysis

Specific Gravity Test

Atterberg Limits: LL, PL, SL

Density & Moisture Content Tests

Sand Equivalent Test

Preparation and Mixing Samples by Mixer Apparatus

Soil Electrical Resistivity Test

Rapid Soil Testing

Some of the most important experiments that can be conducted in the Advanced Soil Mechanics Laboratory of the Faculty of Civil Engineering are as follows:

Dynamic Hollow Cylinder Test

Cyclic Triaxial Test

Liquefaction Potential

Shear Modulus & Damping Ratio

Cyclic Simple Shear Test of Unsaturated Soil

Investigation of soil shear behavior under suction fluctuations and variable loads

Study of the effects of moisture and suction on soil strength and deformation

Suction-Controlled Triaxial Test

Soil-Water Characteristic Curve, SWCC

Evaluation of effective shear strength under unsaturated conditions

Study of soil mechanical behavior under different stress paths

Torsional Resonant Column Test

Determination of shear modulus and dynamic damping under unsaturated conditions

Investigation of the elastic and viscoelastic behavior of soil at different frequencies

Shear Wave Velocity Measurement

Small-Strain Shear Modulus, Gmax

Investigation of the suction effect and effective stress on the dynamic properties of soil