JAWAHARLAL NEHRU TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY HYDERABAD

Course Objective

To obtain the physical and mechanical properties of rocks and geosynthetic

materials for civil engineering applications.

Course Outcome

Student should be able to evaluate engineering properties of rocks and to

determine load carrying capacity and stability of rock slopes for various civil engineering structures. Determination of properties of geosynthetic materials, for use in the design of reinforced soil structure.

List of Experiments:

• 1. Preparation of Rock Specimen-Core drilling
• 2. Preparation of Rock Specimen-Cutting, Polishing
• 3. Slake Durability Test
• 4. Brazilian Test
• 5. Point Load Test
• 6. Unconfined Compression Test on rock samples
• 7. Interface Shear Behavior of Soils with Geosynthetics
• 8. Cone Drop Test on Geotextile
• 9. Tensile Tests (Wide Width, Narrow Width, etc. on Geotextiles)
• 10. CBR Push Through on Geotextiles
• 11. In-Plane and Cross-Plane Permeability of Geotextiles
• 12. Design of Slope, Embankment, Reinforced Soil Wall using Software

References

1. Rao G. V & Goutham. P (2008), Geosynthetic testing – a laboratory manual, SAGES,

Hyderabad.