FABRICATION AND CALIBRATION OF LARGE SCALE DIRECT SHEAR TEST APPARATUS
| Author(s) | : | Muhammad Shafi, Beenish Jehan, Irshad Ahmad, Abdullah |
| Institution | : | Department of Civil Engineering, University of Engineering and Technology, Peshawar, Pakistan, |
| Published In | : | Vol. 6, Issue 10 — October 2019 |
| Page No. | : | 43-58 |
| Domain | : | Engineering |
| Type | : | Research Paper |
| ISSN (Online) | : | 2348-4470 |
| ISSN (Print) | : | 2348-6406 |
This research is focused on the Design, Fabrication and Calibration of large scale Direct Shear and Pulloutapparatus to find the shear strength parameters of the soil with large particles under constant normal load. With thisapparatus experiments on fine (loose & dense state), medium (loose & dense state), and coarse (loose & dense state)sand and also crush aggregate were conducted under different normal loads of 12.7 KN (1.27 ton), 25.4 KN (2.54 ton)and 38.1KN (3.81 ton). To check the performance of apparatus testing were also done with standard direct shear testapparatus under the same conditions. As the tests were carried out under different loading conditions without anyproblem occur in the equipment assembly hence it was concluded that the equipment design governs. Furthermore it wasobserved that there is reasonable difference in the test values of large scale and small scale tests so it was concluded thatthe large scale direct shear equipment is calibrated.
Muhammad Shafi, Beenish Jehan, Irshad Ahmad, Abdullah, “FABRICATION AND CALIBRATION OF LARGE SCALE DIRECT SHEAR TEST APPARATUS”, International Journal of Advance Engineering and Research Development (IJAERD), Vol. 6, Issue 10, pp. 43-58, October 2019.
