Geotechnical Engineering Laboratories

 Geotechnical Engineering laboratories include two main laboratories:

1.        Soil mechanics lab   2.  Rock mechanics lab.

 These labs provide all lab tests for undergraduate and postgraduate students.

The main tests performed in these two labs are :

1.       Soil and rock classification tests

2.       Specific Gravity test

3.       Moisture-Density relations (compaction tests)

4.       Field Density test

5.       Permeability of soil tests

6.       Consolidation test

7.       Unconfined compression test

8.       Triaxial tests

9.       Direct Shear tests

 Laboratories provide assistance in performing academic programs for students and faculty research, public establishments and private sectors concerned with soil problems. The lab and field work for the researches and studies funded by King Abdulaziz City for Researches and Technology (KACST) also carried out in these labs trying to solve soil problems in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. These two labs also provide and help public research services through performing all lab tests needed for analysis and studies soil problems for public and private sectors.