ETTL Equipment Available for
Geotechnical Engineering Projects

An ETTL drilling rig atop a flat car drills down between ties of a bridge supported by creosoted wooden pilings at the Texas State Railroad Historical Park, taking soil samples so they can be tested for properties in ETTL's geotechnical laboratories. From their findings, ETTL's engineers made a static analysis and recommended the depths to which steel pilings for a new bridge should be driven to provide some 90 tons of support per pile. They also evaluated the final pile design. Over a several-year period, ETTL's engineers carried out such studies for upwards of 20 bridges at the Park, which was replacing the older bridges along its run between Palestine and Rusk, Texas. (A very pleasant 50-mile-round-trip to take with the family!)

ETTL has a variety of equipment available to carry out
its geotechnical engineering services.

Click the types of equipment you are interested in.

Equipment for
Laboratory Testing of Geotechnical Samples		 Geoprobe Percussion-Probing Unit
Field Equipment and Instrumentation for Installing Piezometers and Monitoring Wells Ardco Articulating Drill Buggy
Truck-Mounted Drilling Rigs
and
Complementary Equipment		 Mobile Laboratories - Which Can Be Brought to Sites under Investigation

The person at ETTL to talk to for in-depth information about ETTL's geotechnical engineering services and/or to schedule a geotechnical study is Robert Duke


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