Geo Lab

Geotechnical laboratory is a section within the "Azeri-Fugro" J.V. was created In 2000. The Laboratory provides a commercial testing service for all types of soil samples, usually as part of a wider service by Fugro Engineers B.V. or one of it's sister companies.
The Laboratory also provide a commercial testing for other foreign and Republican companies. Geotechnical laboratory maintains a quality and safety management system in line with AZS- System of National Standardization, The State Agency of the Azerbaijan Republic on Standardization, Metrology and Patents to ensure the quality and safety of its services. Most tests performed in the Laboratory are carried out according to the Standards laid down by the American Society for Testing and Materials ( ASTM ), British Standards Institute ( BS ), Recommendations of the International Society for Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering - ISSMGE ( DIN ) and/or the Dutch Standardization Institute (NNI). The cold storage room is used for storing samples prior also after testing. The temperature maintained at 10oC + 1 oC. The humidity is kept between 70-90 %.

Test Services

  

1. CLASSIFICATION TESTS
1.1 Sample description
1.2 Unit weight and water content
1.3 Atterberg limits ( liquid limit and plastic limit)
1.3.1 1-point Casagrande method+Plastic limit
1.3.2 4-point Casagrande method+Plastic limit
1.3.3 Cone method
1.4 Particles size distribution
1.4.1 Particles size distribution by dry sieving
1.4.2 Particles size distribution by wet sieving
1.4.3 Particles size distribution by sieving and sedimentation (Hydrometer method)
1.4.4 Percentage fines (<0,06mm)
1.5 Density of solid particles (Pycnometer method)
1.6 Maximum and minimum index unit weight of coarse-grained soil (DGI method)
1.7 Colour photograph of soil samples

2. STRENGTH INDEX TESTS
2.1 Undrained shear strength of fine - grained soil
2.1.1 Torvane
2.1.2 Pocket Penetrometer
2.1.3 Fall cone
2.1.4 Laboratory vane (motorized vane)

3. CHEMICAL TESTS
3.1 Loss on ignition (Organic content)
3.2 Carbonate content
3.3 Pore water Salinity ( Refractometer method )

4. PERMEABILITY TESTS
4.1 Constant head method
4.1.1 In permeameter
4.1.2 In triaxial cell

5. ONE-DIMENSIONAL CONSOLIDATION TESTS
5.1 Oedometer (Incremental loading)

6. MONOTONIC TRIAXIAL TESTS
6.1 Unconsolidated Undrained (fine grained soil)
6.1.1 Single stage
6.1.2 Single stage, remoulded
6.2 Consolidated Drained (coarse-grained soil, isotropic consolidation)
6.2.1 Single stage
6.2.2 Three stages using multistage technique
6.2.3 Three stages using single-stage technique
6.3 Consolidated Undrained (fine-grained soil, isotropic consolidation)
6.3.1 Single stage
6.3.2 Three stages using multistage technique
6.3.3 Three stages using single-stage technique
6.4 Consolidated Undrained (fine-grained soil, anisotropic consolidation)
6.4.1 Single stage

7. STRENGTH INDEX TESTS
7.1 Uni-axial compressive strength, including stress-strain diagram
7.2 Shear box test
7.3 Proctor test