53:030 Soil Mechanics Laboratory Materials

• Lab 1: Soil Grain Specific Gravity
• Lab 2: Grain Size Distributions
• Lab 3: Atterberg Limits
• Lab 4: Shrinkage Limit Measurement
• Writeup Guidelines for Labs 1 through 4
• Lab 5: Permeability Measurements (Constant Head)
• Lab 6: Using FEM to Compute Seepage
• Lab 7: Seepage Forces & Effective Stresses
• Writeup Guidelines for Labs 5 through 7
• Lab 8: 1-D Compression of Dry Sand
• Lab 9: 1-D Consolidation of Fine-Grained Soil
• Lab 10: Finite Element Consolidation Computations
• Writeup Guidelines for Labs 8-10
• Lab 11: Direct Shear Test on Dry Sand
• Lab 12: Drained Triaxial Compression of Dry Sand
• Writeup Guidelines for Labs 11 and 12
• Lab 13: Compaction of Moist Soil