List of practical geotechnical and geological skills
Geotechnical and geophysical site investigation ▸ show / hide
- Site investigation planning
- Soil, rock & mineral identification
- Rock mass classification: RMR & Q-System
- Rock slope stability assessment: SMR, SSPC & kinematic/stereographic method
- Rock core logging
- Borelog interpretation
- Soil boring & soil sampling (e.g. Kopecky ring, Ackermann sampler, Piston sampler)
- Field vane test
- Equotip & Schmidt rebound hammer test
- Pocket penetrometer test
- Standard penetration test (SPT)
- Totalsondering
- Cone penetration test (CPT)
- Electrical resistivity survey (ER, ERT, ERI)
Laboratory techniques ▸ show / hide
- Triaxial test
- Direct shear & simple shear test (DS & SS)
- Uniaxial/unconfined compressive strength test (UCS)
- Brazilian tensile strength test (BTS)
- Point load test (PLT)
- Micro-Deval, Los Angeles abrasion, aggregate impact test
- Porosity: dry (gas expansion pycnometer) & wet (vacuum pump) methods
- Permeability: dry (gas permeameter) & wet (constant head & falling head) methods
- Sieving & grain size distribution
- Oedometer compression test
- Atterberg limits
- Methylene blue test
- Optical mineralogy / thin section analysis
Geological fieldwork ▸ show / hide
- Geological outcrop investigation & measurement
- Geological mapping and cross-section drawing
- Stereoscopic aerial photography analysis
- In situ rock & mineral identification
- Rock mass classification & slope stability assessment (refer to Site investigation)