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Schedule Details - TESTING LABORATORY No. 1982
Category 0 - Permanent Laboratory

Materials/Products Tested -
SOILS for civil engineering purposes

Laboratory Contact - John Masters

Issue No: 006

Date: 10 June 2003

 Address:

Geolabs Ltd.
Bucknalls Lane
Garston
Watford
Hertfordshire
WD25 9XX

Telephone: 09123 892 190
Fax: 01923 892 191
MECHANICAL TESTS
Types of Test Standard Specifications
California Bearing Ratio (CBR) BS1377:Part 4:1990
Unconfined compressive strength
- load frame method		 BS1377:Part 7:1990
Undrained shear strength
- triaxial compression test without measurement of pore pressure		 BS1377:Part 7:1990
Undrained shear strength
- triaxial compression with multistage loading and without measurement of pore pressure		 BS1377:Part 7:1990
Effective shear strength
- consolidated-undrained triaxial compression test with measurement of pore pressure		 BS1377:Part 8:1990
Effective shear strength
- consolidated-drained triaxial compression test with measurement of volume change		 BS1377:Part 8:1990
Effective shear strength
- consolidated-undrained multistage triaxial compression test with measurement of pore pressure		 Documented In-House Method Test Procedure 38
Effective shear strength
- consolidated-drained multistage triaxial compression test with measurement of volume change		 Documented In-House Method Test Procedure 38
PHYSICAL  TESTS
Moisture content
- oven drying method		 BS1377:Part 2:1990
Liquid limit
- cone penetrometer		 BS1377:Part 2:1990
Plastic limit BS1377:Part 2:1990
Plasticity index and liquidity index BS1377:Part 2:1990
Particle size distribution
- wet sieving		 BS1377:Part 2:1990
Particle size distribution
- dry sieving		 BS1377:Part 2:1990
Dry density/moisture content relationship
(2.5 kg rammer)		 BS1377:Part 4:1990
Dry density/moisture content relationship
(4.5 kg rammer)		 BS1377:Part 4:1990
One dimensional consolidation properties BS1377:Part 5:1990
Permeability in a triaxial cell BS1377:Part 6:1990
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