Laboratory Testing

Datasheets

Fugro Engineering Services provides a wide range of soil and rock testing for the construction industry. All of Fugro’s UK laboratories are UKAS accredited and operate under an ISO 17025 certification, guaranteeing that testing and processing of the results are quality controlled.

Geotechnical Laboratory Testing

Fugro has UKAS accreditation for the following soil and rock tests performed by our Wallingford-based sister companies of Fugro Engineering Services Ltd and Fugro Ltd:

• Point load strength and anisotropy indices
• Water content
• Saturation moisture content of chalk
• Porosity and density
• Slake-durability index

Soils – Mechanical Tests

• California Bearing ratio (CBR)
• Unconfined compressive strength
• Undrained shear strength – triaxial compression
• Shear strength – shearbox
• Effective shear strength
• One-dimensional consolidation

Soils - Physical Tests

• Liquid limit – cone penetrometer & Casagrande apparatus
• Plastic limit
• Plasticty index and liquidity index
• Density
• Particle density – small pyknometer
• Particle size distribution – wet/dry sieving & pipette
• Dry density/moisture content relationship
• Moisture condition value (MCV)
• Chalk crushing value
• One-dimensional consolidation properties
• Moisture content
• Permeability in a hydraulic consolidation cell
• Permeability in a triaxial cell
• Accelerated permeability test