Interpreting Soil Test Results

Geological Society Fellows will receive a 10% discount if attending this course

Course Objectives:
The aim is to help young inexperienced professionals from a wide background to understand how soil tests are chosen and interpreted.

Course Outline:
Brief review of site investigation techniques
Methods of soil sampling
In situ testing
Instrumentation
Total and effective stress
Shear stress in terms of peak, residual and critical state
Pressure distribution with soil depth
Discussion of various soil tests such as
consistency limits
wet and dry sieving
compaction, MCV
consolidation and swelling
shear strength
permeability
CBR
Design considerations (Purposes for which the soil tests are useful)
Discussion of typical case histories
Intended for:
Construction professionals who have an occasional need to specify tests but are not specialists in the subject, e.g. local authority engineers, architects, planners, builders, graduate engineers, etc.

Course Duration:
1 day (6 hrs) IPD/CPD

Delivery:	Classroom
Regions:	Scotland Northern Ireland The West Midlands Wales South West England South East England
Category:	Environmental