The Soils Testing Laboratory includes equipment to perform an array of:

• index tests
• compaction tests
• relative density tests
• direct shear tests
• falling and constant head tests
• rigid wall hydraulic conductivity tests
• flexible wall hydraulic conductivity tests
• unconfined compression tests
• triaxial tests
• consolidation tests

Major experiments conducted in CEE 3901 include:

• Index properties of soil
• Grain size distribution (sieve and hydrometer analysis)
• Atterberg limits
• Water content
• Identification of soils
• Compaction
• Unconfined compression
• Direct shear
• Hydraulic conductivity (both falling head and constant head)

Laboratory Highlights

Research is conducted in this laboratory as well as the following courses:

• CEE 3901
  Soil Mechanics Lab
  co-requisite to CEE 3801
• CEE 4801
  Foundation Design

The CEE 3901 sections use the facility and perform laboratory experiments weekly.

CEE 4801 uses the laboratory occasionally in the fall semester for demonstrations and/or student projects.