B.Tech Civil Engineering

 

CE 313           Geotechnical Engineering II Lab                   0-0-2-2

 

 

 

Syllabus: Direct shear test, Vane shear test, Unconfined compression test, Triaxial sample preparation, Unconsolidated undrained triaxial test, Consolidated undrained triaxial test, Consolidated drained triaxial test, Consolidation test, Field Guelph permeability test, Standard penetration test

 

Texts:

  1. Fratta, J. Aguettant, and L. R. Smith, Soil Mechanics Laboratory Testing, Boca Raton, CRC Press, USA, 2007
  2. Bardet, Experimental Soil Mechanics, Upper Saddle River, Prentice Hall, USA, 1992
  3. E. Kalinski, Soil Mechanics Lab Manual, 2nd Edition, John Wiley & Sons Inc., 2011

 

References:

  1. Relevant Bureau of Indian Standards documents
  2. Liu and J. B. Evett, Soil Properties: Testing, Measurement and Evaluation, Upper Saddle River, Prentice Hall, USA, 1997
  1. Biarez, and P. Y, Hicher, Elementary Mechanics of Soil Behaviour: Saturated Remoulded soils, Rotterdam A.A., Balkema, USA, 1994
  2. Jack, Understanding soil mechanics, Albany Delmar Pub., 1995