School of Environment

Engineering Geology

Point Load Tester

Point load tester - used to determine uniaxial compressive strength of soft to hard rock materials.
Cone indenter - provides estimate of unconfined compressive strength for weak and very weak fine grained rocks.
Slake durability apparatus - measures the susceptibility of a rock to weathering due to cyclic wetting and drying.
Cone penetrometer - also used for determining the liquid limit of a soil.
Casagrande apparatus - used to determine the liquid limit of a soil.
Shear box - a lab based instrument used to determine the shear strength of intact soil samples.

Proctor Penetrometer, Spring Type - a field instrument for testing the relationship between moisture and penetration resistance.
Dynamic Cone Penetrometer - used to provide a measure of the in-situ strength of finegrained and weakly cemented materials.
Pocket penetrometer - used to indicate iconsistency and unconfined compressive strength of saturated cohesive soils.
Shear vane - gives an indication of in-situ undrained shear strength of fine grained clays and silts or other fine particulated geomaterials such as mine tailings.
Schmidt hammer - The schmidt hammer rebound device helps determining the compressive strength of rocks.
Field shear box - used to determine the in-situ shear strength of soils.

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