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Research Facilities
Click here to see Geotechnical Testing lab photos.
Click here to see
Soil Characterization lab photos.
The geotechnical and geoenvironmental engineering group
has a fully equipped laboratory for performing traditional
geotechnical and geoenvironmental engineering laboratory
tests. Specifically, the laboratories house advanced triaxial
testing facilities, unconfined compression testing equipment,
manual and automated direct shear equipment, rigid-wall
hydraulic conductivity equipment, large- and small-diameter
flexible-wall hydraulic conductivity test equipment, automated-,
backpressure- and constant gradient-consolidation testing
capabilities, porosimetry testing equipment along with complete
facilities for soil characterization, In addition, a separate
geosynthetics laboratory includes a permittivity device,
two transmissivity devices, a large-scale tilt table, eight
creep loading frames for geosynthetics, two creep frames
for polymeric structural members, and two environmental
chambers for accelerated creep testing. The group has access
to a wind tunnel and wave flume for performing erosion studies
as well as a fully enclosed freeze-thaw chamber. The Environmental
engineering group in the Department also has extensive laboratory
capabilities which are available for geoenvironmental engineering
research.
In addition to our on-campus laboratory equipment, the Department
has access to the Missouri Department of Transportation
(MoDOT) Research, Development & Technology Division
laboratories and equipment for testing soils, rock, geosynthetics,
and other civil engineering materials. Access to the MoDOT
labs and equipment is made available through a cooperative
agreement between MoDOT and the University of Missouri.
The MoDOT labs are located only thirty minutes south of
Columbia in Jefferson City (the state capitol).
Click here to see the MU Geotech Experiment Site The Department also has significant laboratory space available
for larger scale laboratory testing. This space includes
a high bay equipped with an overhead crane and a fully automated
MTS loading system. For very large scale experiments, the
department operates an off campus laboratory which can be
used for large scale geotechnical and geoenvironmental testing.
The College of Engineering has extensive computational capabilities
for advanced computational modeling of geotechnical engineering
problems. The most recent addition to these capabilities
is a digital Alpha-server 8400 multiprocessor (8 CPU) enterprise
server for extremely intensive computing. The College and
Department also carry licenses for many advanced analysis
software which can be used for geotechnical analyses.
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