February 13, 2024
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM Eastern
- Introduction (speaker, audience, purpose of webinar)
- The importance of triaxial testing for earth dams.
- Earthen dam cross-sections
- Lab testing as a soil element simulation tool.
- What lab tests, where, and when (DS, UCT, TX)
- Loading conditions in an earth dam
- Overview of the triaxial test
- Equipment components
- Sample/specimen components
- Measuring devices
- The phases of triaxial testing
- Saturation
- Consolidation
- Shear
- Specimen preparation
- What do we want to simulate?
- Within dam (reconstituted samples)
- Within foundation soil (intact samples)
- Other advanced techniques of specimen prep.
- Q/A Period 1
- Types of tests
- Controlling drainage
- Measuring pore water pressure
- CD triaxial test
- CU triaxial test
- UU triaxial test
- Unconfined Compression Test
- What data and information to report
- MC circles vs. stress paths
- How to interpret the data results
- What to test when and why
- Other advanced triaxial tests
- Q/A Period 2
- Wrap-up and thank you.
