Sample Preparation

Karol-Warner offers many accessories to help prepare soil specimens for geotechnical laboratory tests such as triaxial shear, various types of permeability tests, consolidation, and direct shear.

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• Adjustable Soil Sample Trimmers are also known as soil lathes and allow rotation of a cylindrical sample while a wire saw is used to reduce the diameter.
• Open End Wire Saw has a fine wire blade used to pare delicate soil samples with little disturbance to the specimen.
• Two-Part Miter Box holds a soil specimen in place while the ends are trimmed to be exactly perpendicular to the sides.
• Two-Part Compaction Mold Assemblies remold cohesive soil specimens for triaxial or permeability testing.
• Two-Part Vacuum Split Molds are used to mold non-cohesive samples for triaxial and permeability tests.
• Permeability Compaction Hammer easily compacts soil samples for testing in accordance with ASTM standards