GEOTECHNICAL ENGINEERING SERVICES
We have experience with:
- Surface and subsurface drainage
- Pavement analyses and design
- Bearing capacity analyses
- Soil stabilization with lime and cement admixtures
- Undercutting and replacement with engineered fill
- Stabilization with biaxial and triaxial grids
- Nuclear density soil compaction testing
- Construction of sloped embankments
- Repair of slope faliures and surface sloughs
- Analyses of bedrock depth and rippability
- Stabilization with rammed aggregate piers
We have experience with:
- Slope stability analyses of proposed, existing, and failing slopes
- Global stability analyses of earth retaining structures
- Gravity retaining walls
- Earth Dams and overflow/drainage systems
- MSE walls and segmental retaining walls
- Soil nail walls
- Thrust block, anchor, and mesh earth retaining systems
- Secant walls
- Shotcrete walls
- Slope keyway and toe key construction
- Subsurface drainage
- Slope faliures and surface slough repairs
We have experience in the design and installation of:
- Conventional strip, spread, and column pad footings
- Concrete pier foundations
- Helical, ACIP, micropile, and timber pier foundations
- Drilled shafts
- Mat foundations and heavy equipment pads
- Rammed aggregate pier foundations
- Structural fill utilizing borrow fills and engineered aggregate fills
- Reinforcement steel
List of Tests Offered:
- ASTM D-421/AASHTO R58 - Dry Preparation of Soils
- ASTM D-422/AASHTO T88 - Particle Size Analysis of Soils
- ASTM D-4318/AASHTO T89 - Determination of the Liquid Limit of Soils
- ASTM D-4318/AASHTO T90 - Determination of the Plastic Limit and Plasticity Index of Soils
- ASTM D-698/AASHTO T99 - Moisture-Density Relations of Soils (Proctor Test)
- ASTM D-2166/AASHTO T208 - Unconfined Compressive Strength of Cohesive Soils
- ASTM D-2435/AASHTO T216 - One-Dimenstional Consolidation Properties of Soils
- ASTM D-3080/AASHTO T236 - Direct Shear of Soil Under Consolidated-Drained Conditions
- ASTM D-2216/AASHTO T265 - Laboratory Determination of Moisture Content of Soils
- ASTM D-2794/AASHTO T267 - Determination of Organic Content of Soils by Loss on Ignition
- ASTM D-2850/AASHTO T296 - UU Compressive Strength of Soils in Triaxial Compression
- ASTM D-4767/AASHTO T297 - CU Triaxial Compression Test on Cohesive Soils
- ASTM D-4644 - Slake Durability of Shales and Similar Weak Rocks
- ASTM D-5731 - Determination of the Point Load Strength Index of Rock
- ASTM D-7012 - Compressive Strength of Rock Core Specimens, Method C