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	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