Site investigation - Practical Engineering Geology - page 143

Figure 4.11 Hand
trimming a sample
to size in the field,

for transportation
to laboratory and
triaxial testing.

(a) (b)

Figure 4.12 (a) Block sample cut into grade IV weathered sedimentary rock and transported to the
laboratory. (b) The sample trimmed by hand to fit into a Leeds direct shear box.