Research Agenda

    The program’s current research focuses on determining the strength of soft seafloor soils at shallow depths using specialized in-situ penetrometers. Specifically, the strength determination of soft clay soils using flow-pentrometers are being compared to more traditional in-situ tools such as the cone penetrometer and vane shear. Large-scale clay specimens are being prepared in a specially designed slurry consolidometer that will allow side-by-side comparisons of penetrometer tools to shallow depth.

Mixing Slurry

      
Compressor and Tank in CSULA lab               Extracting Slurry


Slurry                               Compressing of Slurry in Tank

   
Vane shear, Cone penetrometer, Ball penetrometer      Bottom of the Tank with Metal Grate Filter


Tank and compressor