Modernization of the Undergraduate Geotechnical Engineering Laboratory.

根据这一项目，巴克内尔大学将对土木工程系内的岩土实验室进行现代化改造。将获得测量土壤和岩石三轴剪切强度的设备。三轴控制面板和三轴单元将允许学生测量和控制外部施加的总应力、孔压、试件体积变化和应力路径。固结仪将用于测量土体的固结特性，包括预固结压力和固结时间速率。这一实验室现代化将允许学生使用最新的设备对广泛的土壤类型进行实验室测试。

Under this project, Bucknell University will modernize its geotechnical laboratory within the civil engineering department. Equipment will be obtained to measure the shear strength of soil and rock in triaxial shear. Triaxial control panels and triaxial cells will allow the students to measure and control the externally applied total stresses, the pore water pressure, specimen volume change and the stress path. Consolidometers will be used to measure the consolidation properties including preconsolidation pressures and the time rate of consolidation of soils. This laboratory modernization will permit students to conduct laboratory tests on a wide range of soil types with up-to-date equipment.