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Description
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The soil mechanics course is often accompanied by a laboratory course, to introduce students to common geotechnical test methods, test standards, and terminology. Michael Kalinski of the University of Kentucky has written a lab manual intro-ducing students to the most common soil mechanics tests, and has included laboratory exercises and data sheets for each test.
Like other construction materials, soil possesses mechanical properties related to strength, compressibility, and permeabil-ity. It is important to quantify these properties to predict how soil will behave under field loading for the safe design of soil structures (e.g. embankments, dams, waste containment liners, highway base courses, etc.), as well as other structures that will overlay the soil. Quantification of the mechanical properties of soil is performed in the laboratory using standard-ized laboratory tests.
The procedures for all of the tests described in this manual are written in accordance with applicable American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM) standards. It is important to be familiar with these standards to understand, interpret, and properly apply laboratory results obtained using a standardized method. Each test described in this manual has an associ-ated ASTM standard number.
Brief video demonstrations are also available online for each of the experiments described in this manual.
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