Papua New Guinea University of Technology-Lae SCI CHEM1150 SOIL MECHANICS EXPERIMENTS HANDBOOK SOIL. - SOIL MECHANICS EXPERIMENTS HANDBOOK SOIL MECHANICS LABORATORY DEPARTMENT OF CIVIL ENGINEERING FACULTY OF

This book is proposed for students as a guidebook for soil mechanics experiments.
This guidebook consists of 3 parts:
 Part 1: Consist of the experiments from Basic Soil Mechanics. The experiments in
this part have purposes in getting physical properties of soil, e.g. the liquid limit,
plastic limit, and shrinkage limit, specific gravity, particle-size distribution,
compaction and CBR laboratory test and coefficient of permeability of soil.
 Part 2: Consist of the experiments from Soil Mechanics. The experiments in this
parts have purposes in getting mechanical properties of soil, e.g. the shear
strength parameters, consolidation parameters, and also field tests for getting
undisturbed sample and CPT.
 Part 3: Consist of the experiments from Advanced Geotechincal Investigation.
The experiments in this part have purposes in getting physical properties of soil
in advance, e.g. swelling test, field compaction and field CBR, and also other field
tests including DCP, plate bearing test, and field permeability test.
This handbook is the newest and the revised version so that the students can follow
it easily while experimenting, from the preparation of the sample until the calculation
of the data. We hope that, with the revised version of this guidebook, the student can
undersand the soil mechanics experiments and can be applied in real workplace in civil
engineering.
Erly Bahsan, ST., M.Kom
Ahmad Syihan, ST.