Training Overview
Master mechanical tests on soils and rocks (consolidation, shearing, compression, triaxial)
Duration of the training:
Days
3
BTP Laboratory operators
- participatory method
- Practical cases
Description and implementation of standard mechanical tests on soils
- Consolidation Test, shearing, and simple Compression
- Triaxial Test, CBR, PROCTOR, densitometer with a membrane
- Using the test results
- Determination of soil parameters for testing operations
- Oedometrics: the importance and the duration of a soil settlement
- Simple shearing, simple compression, Triaxial, CBR, and PROCTOR
- Interpretation and editing test reports
- Brief description of the test type , and the followed procedure
- Presentation of results and formulating recommendations
