Soil Sample Preparation

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

Adjustable Soil Sample Trimmers

Open End Wire Saw

Two-Part Miter Boxes

Two-Part Compaction Mold Assemblies

Two-Part Compaction Molds

Two-Part Vacuum Split Molds

Permeability Compaction Hammer

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 Boxes hold soil specimens 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 Compaction Molds 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