AS PER IS 2720 PART 11 & PART 12
Cohesion value and Angle of friction with added controlled overburden load simulation. A triaxial shear test is a common method to measure the mechanical properties of many deformable solids, especially soil (e.g., sand, clay) and rock.
Objective – Determination of the shear strength parameters of a specimen tested in UU, CU, CD Triaxial compression with the measurement & without the measurement of Pore water pressure.
Civiltech perform Triaxial shear test by all the following 03 methods.
- Unconsolidated Undrained Test (UU)
- Consolidated Undrained Test (CU)
- Consolidated drained conditions Test (CD)
The triaxial test has many advantages over the direct shear test:
• The soil samples are subjected to uniform stresses and strains.
• Different combinations of confining and axial stresses can be applied.
• Drained and undrained tests can be carried out.
• Pore water pressures can be measured in undrained tests.
• The complete stress-strain behaviour can be determined.
- Unconsolidated Undrained Test (UU)
- Consolidated Undrained Test (CU)
- Consolidated drained conditions Test (CD)
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