{"id":649,"date":"2021-01-21T05:10:48","date_gmt":"2021-01-21T05:10:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eng.sjp.ac.lk\/civileng\/?page_id=649"},"modified":"2023-04-27T12:45:42","modified_gmt":"2023-04-27T12:45:42","slug":"geotechnical-engineering-laboratory","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/eng.sjp.ac.lk\/civileng\/geotechnical-engineering-laboratory\/","title":{"rendered":"Geotechnical Engineering Laboratory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000\">Each civil engineering structure such as building, bridge, pipeline, canal, dam, and road pavement is found on soil and rock. Geotechnical Engineering is one of the major sub-disciplines of Civil Engineering, concerning the investigations on engineering properties of soil and rock.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\">The Geological Laboratory facilities contain a diverse range of conventional soil and rock testing equipment.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\"><strong>Key research areas<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000\">Solidification of soils<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000\">Rheological properties soils<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000\">Peat soils<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000\">Ground improvement<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000\">Slope stability<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000\">Long-term consolidation &amp; Ancient construction materials<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\"><strong>Non-Academic staff:<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000\">Mr. Gimshan Rathnayake (Technical officer)<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000\">Mr. M.T. Guruge (Lab attendant)<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Each civil engineering structure such as building, bridge, pipeline, canal, dam, and road pavement is found on soil and rock. Geotechnical Engineering is one of the major sub-disciplines of Civil Engineering, concerning the investigations on engineering properties of soil and rock. The Geological Laboratory facilities contain a diverse range of conventional soil and rock testing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/eng.sjp.ac.lk\/civileng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/649"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/eng.sjp.ac.lk\/civileng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/eng.sjp.ac.lk\/civileng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/eng.sjp.ac.lk\/civileng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/eng.sjp.ac.lk\/civileng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=649"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/eng.sjp.ac.lk\/civileng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/649\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1516,"href":"http:\/\/eng.sjp.ac.lk\/civileng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/649\/revisions\/1516"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/eng.sjp.ac.lk\/civileng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}