Soil Testing

Field Testing

  • Plate load testing equipment with capacities of 100 or 200 kN for determining the deformability and bearing capacity of soils, including digital measuring sensors and evaluation units
  • Lightweight deflectometers (dynamic plate load testing devices) for rapid determination of the dynamic deformation modulus Evd of soils and base courses
  • Core cutters, densitometers, sand replacement equipment or liquid replacement equipment for determining the in-situ density of soils
  • Pocket vane testers, lightweight shear strength testers (up to 3 m depth) or field vane testers (up to 10 m depth) for determining vane shear strength
  • Pocket penetrometers for rapid determination of unconfined compressive strength
  • Field penetrometers for determining the penetration resistance of soils
  • Infiltrometers and permeameters for determining water permeability

Laboratory Testing

  • Proctor testing equipment for determining the optimum compaction density of soils
  • Equipment for determining uniaxial or triaxial water permeability
  • Sample extruders for Proctor moulds and core cutter samples
  • Liquid limit devices, plastic limit testing equipment and fall cone apparatus for determining the consistency limits of soils
  • Enslin apparatus for determining water absorption capacity
  • Calcimeters for determining carbonate content
  • Equipment for determining minimum and maximum density (vibrating fork / bulk density)
  • Laboratory vane testers for determining vane shear strength
  • CBR testing equipment and compression testing machines for conducting CBR tests
  • Consolidation testing equipment, oedometer cells and accessories for determining one-dimensional consolidation
  • Uniaxial and universal compression testing machines for determining compressive strength
  • Direct shear, ring shear and large-frame shear testing equipment and accessories for determining shear strength
  • Triaxial compression testing systems for determining three-dimensional shear strength