Services
Geotechnical Engineering
CMJ operates a full geotechnical laboratory in Fort Worth. The following tests are performed in accordance with ASTM E 329 requirements.
Geotechnical Investigations
- •Active clay mitigation
- •Advanced soil and materials testing
- •Backfill criteria
- •Bearing capacity
- •Borrow area investigation
- •Deep foundations, piers, piles
- •Distress investigations
- •Earth retention systems
- •Embankment design
- •Excavation support
- •Forensic investigations
- •Foundation design parameters
- •Geological studies
- •Geotechnical investigations
- •Insitu soil testing
- •Laboratory testing
- •Lateral load analysis
- •Load tests
- •Materials design – dams & railroads
- •Pavement design
- •Pile and pier foundations
- •PVR evaluations
- •Retaining wall design
- •Rock coring
- •Rock testing
- •Seepage control
- •Settlement analysis
- •Shallow spread footings
- •Slope stability studies
- •Soils investigations
- •Tieback systems
- •Trench safety
- •Tunnel investigations
Geotechnical Laboratory Tests
- •Atterberg limits
- •CBR
- •Consolidation
- •Direct shear tests
- •Gradations
- •Hand penetrometer
- •Hydrometer
- •Lime series
- •Moisture content
- •Moisture/density curve
- •Permeability
- •pH
- •Resistivity
- •Shrink / swell tests
- •Unconfined compression (soil and rock)
- •Unit weight
- •Visual classification
