Research Lab Infrastructure
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The S&M research lab is equipped with several qualified research laboratories includes;
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Construction Materials Research Laboratory
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Geotechnical Engineering Research Laboratory
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Rock Mechanics Research Laboratory
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Highway and Transportation Research Laboratory
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Strength of Materials Research Laboratory
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Manufacturing Research Laboratory
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Surveying Research Laboratory
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Computational & Numerical analysis Lab
Figure 1. S&M Lab Infrastructure
GEOTECHNICAL ENGINEERING LABORATORY
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, 2019-2020
Introduction
The PSU Geotechnical Engineering Laboratory (GEL) has been established in 2013. This laboratory contributes mainly teaching and research activities in the Engineering Management Department. It provides support in a wide range of specialized areas of soil and rock mechanics to the students and faculty members.
Mechanics of soil affect many aspects in construction projects. It is vitally important to know the characteristics of soils before starting a project. Our comprehensive range of soil testing equipment are used to obtain the physical, and engineering properties of soil in accordance with international standards.
International safety and security standards are applied in the Geotechnical Engineering Laboratory to ensure the safety and security of our students. For more information in this regard, please check our Safety Manual
Lab. Coordinator
Dr. Mohamed Ezzat | B.Sc. (Hons), M.Sc., Ph.D.
Assistant Professor in Geotechnical Engineering
Engineering Management Department
College of Engineering
Prince Sultan University
Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
Phone: +966 11 494 8292| Mobile: +966-506362379
Email: mezzat@psu.edu.sa
Facilities
Generally, the Geotechnical Engineering laboratories have standard soil and rock testing equipment including soil classification, compaction, consolidation, direct shear, permeability, unconfined compression and stress and strain controlled monotonic triaxial devices. Almost all devices are equipped with computer data acquisition systems. Soil Mechanics Laboratory also has various facilities. Those can be classified into three main categories;
Soil Testing
The Geotechnical Engineering laboratory have standard in-situ and laboratory soil testing equipment and has the capabilities to carry out the following tests:
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Physical Properties of Soil :
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Sieve Analysis Test
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Hydrometer Test
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Fall-cone Penetration Test
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Specific Gravity Test
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Atterberg Limits Test
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Water Content Test
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Permeability of Soil :
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Constant Head Test
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Falling Head Test
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Capillarity-Permeability Tests
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Soil Compaction :
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Standard Proctor Compaction Tests
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Modified Proctor Compaction Tests
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California Bearing Ratio (CBR) Tests
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Field Sand Cone Test
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Soil Compressibility and Swelling :
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Standard Consolidation Test
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Uniaxial Swelling Test
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Free Swelling Test
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Shear Strength Of Soil : ​
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Triaxial Tests
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Laboratory Vane Test
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Unconfined Compression Test
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Direct Shear Test
Rock Testing
The Geotechnical Engineering laboratory have standard laboratory rock testing equipment and has the capabilities to carry out the following tests:
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Rock Permeability Test
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Rock Compression Test
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Rock Strength Test
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Rock Sample Extruder
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Numerical Analysis Software
Finite element Software:
The Laboratory is principally an educational facility that aims at qualifying civil engineers in the Soil Mechanics and Foundations Engineering field. The Laboratory provides finite element software to students of Prince Sultan University , and also give the opportunity to the external M.sc and Ph.D. students to use these software in their researches.
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MIDAS GTS NX (2D, 3D Analysis)
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PLAXIS (2D, 3D Analysis) “will be available soon”
Supporting Facilities:
The Laboratory has its own supporting facilities comprising personal computers, and printers.
Educational and Research Activities
The college of engineering has well equipped the geotechnical engineering laboratory specialized in soil mechanics and foundation engineering areas with all modern equipment to cater the requirements of students and faculty members for both the teaching and research activities.
Course supported includes:
EM 306: Soil mechanics and Foundations
Research Activities:
The overall rate of high-quality research output at PSU has increased dramatically throughout the period with an over 200% increase in total Scopus publications between 2012 and 2016. To facilitate this ongoing surge, Geotechnical Engineering Lab. has been developed and upgrades with new equipment in 2019. Also, numerous research projects were approved and received institutional support in 2019. These research projects will start through the geotechnical Eng. Lab in 2020.
Training and Workshops:
Geotechnical engineering lab has organized the 1st online workshop for numerical and finite element analysis in geotechnical engineering. . This workshop is offered for Free to MSc and Ph.D. students across the globe. The content of this workshop is accredited by Midas soft Co., and by the end of these online sessions, attendees received a certified training certificate approved by MIDAS co. and Prince sultan university. Also, the workshop is presented by Dr. Mohamed Ezzat. The main purpose of this online session is to share knowledge and experiences, also to help young researchers to conduct qualified publications in the area of geotechnical engineering. Ten MSc and PhD students from different countries (Egypt, Oman, Germany, and China) participated in this workshop
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Transportation & Highway ENGINEERING LABORATORY
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, 2019-2020
Introduction
The Transportation and Highway Engineering Laboratory (THEL) is a teaching and research laboratory equipped to conduct standard tests for asphalt pavement design and paving materials for undergraduate teaching, as well as advanced research oriented experiments for assessing the engineering properties and behaviors of new paving materials. It is also well equipped to support research activities in the areas of transportation and highway engineering
International safety and security standards are applied in the Transportation and Highway Engineering Laboratory to ensure the safety and security of our students. For more information in this regard, please check our Safety Manual
Lab. Coordinator
Dr. Mohamed Ezzat | B.Sc. (Hons), M.Sc., Ph.D.
Assistant Professor in Geotechnical Engineering
Engineering Management Department
College of Engineering
Prince Sultan University
Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
Phone: +966 11 494 8292| Mobile: +966-506362379
Email: mezzat@psu.edu.sa
Facilities
The main objective of the Transportation and highway engineering laboratory is to provide a platform for the undergraduate students for practical implementation of Transportation Engineering projects. Also to provide the essential support for the faculty member to perform a qualified scientific research in areas of transportation and highway engineering. So that the laboratory was equipped with various facilities. Those can be classified into two main categories;
Testing & Equipment
The Transportation and highway Engineering laboratory have standard in-situ and laboratory testing equipment, and has the capabilities to carry out the following tests:
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Tests for Subgrade Material :
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Tests for Bituminous Materials
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Sieve Analysis Test
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Hydrometer Test
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Fall-cone Penetration Test
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Specific Gravity Test
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Atterberg Limits Test
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Water Content Test
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Standard Proctor Compaction Tests
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Modified Proctor Compaction Tests
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California Bearing Ratio (CBR) Tests
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Field Sand Cone Test
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Standard Consolidation Test
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Uniaxial Swelling Test
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Free Swelling Test
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Triaxial Tests
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Laboratory Vane Test
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Unconfined Compression Test
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Direct Shear Test
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Penetration Test.
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Ductility Test.
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Specific Gravity.
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Kinematics Viscosity (for Bitumen) (for Liquid Asphalt)
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Bitumen Content Determination.
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Job Mix Design.
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Marshall Stability.
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Tests for Aggregate Materials
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Gradation/Sieve Analysis
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Specific Gravity Test
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Water Absorption
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Unit Weight
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Los Angeles Abrasion
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Standard Procter & Modified Procter
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Field Determination of Dry Density
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Numerical Analysis Software
Artificial Intelligence (AI) Software:
The Laboratory is principally an educational facility that aims at qualifying civil engineers in the Transportation and Highway Engineering field. The Laboratory provides artificial intelligence software to students of Prince Sultan University , and also give the opportunity to the external M.sc and Ph.D. students to use these software in their researches.
Picomixer STA ( Smart Traffic Analyzer ) 17.0.0 Artificial Intelligent (AI) Software
Educational and Research Activities
The college of engineering has well equipped the laboratory specialized in transportation and highway engineering areas with all modern equipment to cater to the requirements of students and faculty members for both the teaching and research activities.
Course supported includes:
EM 477: Transportation System Management
Research Activities:
The overall rate of high-quality research output at PSU has increased dramatically throughout the period with an over 200% increase in total Scopus publications between 2012 and 2016. To facilitate this ongoing surge, Transportation Engineering Lab. has been developed and upgrades with new equipment in 2019. Also, numerous research projects were approved and received institutional support in 2019. These research projects will start through the Highway Eng. Lab in 2020.
Training and Workshops:
The EM 477 Course content of the Transportation system management has been submitted to the project management institute (PMI) to register the course in R.E.P. In 2019, PMI Accredited the offered EM477 course , and now our students can reward with a certificate from PMI, if he achieved a high grade by the end of the semester.
