Karl Terzaghi Laboratory Setup

Glimpses of laboratory of Soil giant

Karl Terzaghi is known as father of soil Mechanics. His theories published long ago have covered the entire area of soil Mechanics and even after so many ears his theories have not lost their charm in field of Geotechnical Engineering.

Today we are conducting experiments on all those machines in our Geotechnical Laboratories. Technology is changing very fast and all the manual works are shifting to the automatic era. Gone are the days, when we had to manually produce the graphs at our sheet after conducting a experiments. With advancement in electronic technology, the automatic machines in laboratories are helping us in reducing the burden of conducting experiments.

Ever wonder, how those giants of soil Mechanics were conducting experiments in laboratories? While surfing on internet we found out some of the instruments used by Karl Terzaghi in laboratories.

The experimental findings of these set ups are so correct that they are relevant even today.