Welcome to Geotechnical Engineering-I

Sessional (CE-3302)
Conducted by
Dr. Md. Kamal Hossain
Professor
And
Md. Ariful Islam
Assistant Professor

Department of Civil Engineering

Dhaka University of Engineering and Technology, Gazipur
 Lecture Plan
Expt. Teaching
Week Experiment Name
No. Method
01 Field Identification and Classification of Soil
01
02 Determination of Specific Gravity of Soil Lecture,
Presentation,
03 Grain Size Analysis of Soil by Sieve and Demo of
02 Hydrometer experiment
04 Atterberg limits Test of Fine Grained Soil
05 Unconfined Compression test of Fine grained Soil
03 06 Permeability test in Laboratory
07 Relative Density Test of Cohesion less Soil
08 Laboratory Compaction Test of Soil
04
09 Field Density Test of Soil by Different Methods
05 10 Quize test and Final Viva Voce
 Unconfined Compression Test
Introduction

• The unconfined compression test is by far the most popular

method of soil shear testing because it is one of the fastest and
cheapest methods of measuring shear strength.

• This test method covers the determination of the unconfined

compressive strength of cohesive soil in the undisturbed,
remolded, or compacted condition, using strain-controlled
application of the axial load.
 Unconfined Compression Test
Objective

• To determine the unconfined compression strength of fine grained

soil.

• The purpose of the test is to determine a quantitative value of

compressive and shearing strength of soils in an undrained state.
Unconfined Compression Test
Apparatus
Unconfined Compression Test
Apparatus
 Unconfined Compression Test
Procedure

Two steps ( See in Video)

1.0 Preparation of specimen
2.0 Perform unconfined compression test