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Soil Laboratories: Deal with the basic and applied investigations. Soil testing for various earth and rockfill dams, foundations of power houses, transmission towers and other water resource structures have been carried out in the laboratories e.g. Matatilla, Ramganga, Sirsi, Jirgo, Meja, Moosakhand, Obra, Tehri, Kishau and other dams. Pore pressures and settlement on earth dams have also been measured. The geotechnical investigations have also been carried out for Bharat Heavy Electrical, Hardwar, IDPL, Rishikesh, Dalla Cement Factory, Mirzapur and Pile foundations of Harduaganj Thermal Power House. The field performance of earth dams has also been studied at a number of dam sites.
The laboratories are well equipped for carrying out the various routine laboratory and field tests. It possesses drilling and sampling apparatus, cone penetrometer, vane shear apparatus, vibrating table, universal triaxial shear machine, auto-level consolidometer etc.
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