A NEW DIMENSION IN SOIL TESTING
A description is given of a piece of equipment originally developed as a portable consolidation testing machine but which has now been adapted to carry out a full range of triaxial tests. The "tricon" now commercially available, is said to have retained the compactness & portability of the early piece of equipment constructed for simple tests on undisturbed specimens of shrinking and swelling clays, but its capability has been extended to include routine one-dimensional consolidation tests and a full range of undrained and drained triaxial tests. Loads may be applied by hand or by motors driven by hand or by motors driven by battery or mains. It is a multi-use machine equally at home in a central laboratory or the back of a land rover. /TRRL/
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Corporate Authors:
Foundation Publications Limited
7 Ongar Road
Brentwood CM15 9AU, Essex, England -
Authors:
- Parry, RHG
- Publication Date: 1977-5
Language
- English
Media Info
- Features: Figures; Photos; References;
- Pagination: p. 27-29
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Serial:
- GROUND ENGINEERING
- Volume: 10
- Issue Number: 4
- Publisher: EMAP CONSTRUCT LIMITED
- ISSN: 0017-4653
Subject/Index Terms
- TRT Terms: Clay; Consolidations; Drainage; Drained soil; Equipment; Loads; Measuring instruments; Soil consolidation test; Soil mechanics; Soil tests; Soils; Test procedures; Tests; Triaxial shear tests; Undrained shear tests
- Uncontrolled Terms: Undrained tests
- ITRD Terms: 6155: Apparatus (measuring); 4177: Clay; 5791: Consolidation (soil); 5781: Drained soil; 4156: Soil; 5755: Soil mechanics; 6255: Test; 6288: Test method; 5566: Triaxial
- Subject Areas: Geotechnology; Highways; Hydraulics and Hydrology; Vehicles and Equipment;
Filing Info
- Accession Number: 00165587
- Record Type: Publication
- Source Agency: Transport and Road Research Laboratory (TRRL)
- Report/Paper Numbers: Analytic
- Files: ITRD, TRIS
- Created Date: Feb 16 1978 12:00AM