Shear Box Test Equipment

What is a Shear Box Test?

A Shear box test, is a test method used to determine the shear strength of a soil sample. 

What Shear Box Test Equipment is best?

GDS has a range of equipment to carry out shear box tests for direct shear testing. Alongside a range of simple shear testing systems that can additionally perform direct shear tests. 

The range of shear box test equipment shown below features our back pressured shearbox, a dynamic and high pressure version of the shearbox and our large automated direct shear system, all of which can carry out shear box tests. For more advanced shear testing equipment, see our direct simple shear test equipment guide.