Geo technical engineering expreriements

1. FCE 311 GEOTECHNICAL ENGINEERING
LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS
Department of Civil & Construction Engineering
University of Nairobi

2. OBJECTIVES
• Geotechnical investigations are performed
to obtain information on the physical
properties of soil and rock around a site to
design earthworks and foundations for
proposed structures and for repair of
distress to earthworks and structures
caused by subsurface conditions

3. • A geotechnical investigation will include
surface exploration and subsurface
exploration of a site. Sometimes,
geophysical methods are used to obtain
data about sites. Subsurface exploration
usually involves soil sampling and
laboratory tests of the soil samples
retrieved.
• Tests will be conducted in groups.

4. LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS
• Liquid Limit Determination
• Plastic Limit Determination
• Dry Density Determination using Sand
Replacement
• Particle Size Distribution
• Compaction
• Specific Gravity of Soil

5. LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS
1. Title
2. Scope and Objectives: Purpose of
experiment clearly defined
3. Description of Apparatus: Describe the
Apparatus, Draw a neat and accurate
diagram
4. Methodology: Describe the procedure,
Describe the preparation of the specimen
5. Results and Analysis: Present / tabulate
the results, Neat calculations (show
formulae), Neat graphs

6. 6. Experimental Errors: Discussion on
experimental errors
7. Discussion
8. Conclusion
9. Recommendation
10.References

7. SUBMISSION
• Submit individual report with Report
Covers offered by the Technician.