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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: 010

Date: 25 January 2011

 Address:

Geolabs Ltd.
Bucknalls Lane
Garston
Watford
Hertfordshire
WD25 9XX

Telephone: 09123 892 190
Fax: +44 (0)1923 892 191
Types of Test Standard Specifications
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
Particle size distribution
- sedimentation
pipette method		 BS1377:Part 2:1990
Particle density
- small pyknometer		 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
California Bearing Ratio (CBR) BS1377:Part 4:1990
One dimensional consolidation properties BS1377:Part 5:1990
Permeability in a triaxial cell BS1377:Part 6:1990
Unconfined compressive strength
- load frame method
(loads from 0.12 to 24 kN)		 BS1377:Part 7:1990

Undrained shear strength
- triaxial compression test without measurement of pore pressure
(loads from 0.12 to 24 kN)

 BS1377:Part 7:1990

Undrained shear strength
- triaxial compression with multistage loading and without measurement of pore pressure
(loads from 0.12 to 24 kN)

 BS1377:Part 7:1990
Shear strength
- small shearbox		 BS1377:Part 7:1990
Residual strength
- small ring shear apparatus		 BS1377:Part 7:1990
Shear strength
- large shearbox		 BS1377:Part 7:1990

Effective shear strength
- consolidated-undrained triaxial compression test with measurement of pore pressure
(loads from 0.12 to 24 kN)

 BS1377:Part 8:1990

Effective shear strength
- consolidated-drained triaxial compression test with measurement of volume change
(loads from 0.12 to 24 kN)

 BS1377:Part 8:1990
Accelerated permeability test Evironment Ageny R & D
Technical Report P1-39B/TR/2:2003

Effective shear strength
- consolidated drained multistage triaxial compression test with measurement of pore pressure
(loads from 0.12 to 24 kN)

 Documented In-House Method Test Procedure 38

Effective shear strength
- consolidated undrained multistage triaxial compression test with measurement of volume change
(loads from 0.12 to 24 kN)

 Documented In-House Method Test Procedure 38
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