Suhel Karki Email & Phone Number

Sydney, Nsw, Au

• Extracting pore water from marine soils using cylindrical press conducting soluble salts test using refractometer.• Determining dispersive and non dispersive soils, checking erodibility of soil from pinhole test.• Conducting Emerson test to determine dispersive characteristics of soil.

New South Wales, Australia

• NATA accredited laboratory. • Preparing samples and performing Direct Shear tests on Shearmatic 300 (Large Direct Shear Box Q181C); more than 200 individual Q181C tests completed for clients all over Australia. • Conducting Uniaxial Compressive Strength (UCS) tests on rock specimens, encompassing meticulous tasks such as cutting, photographing, and precisely measuring their diameters, lengths, and weight. Preparing quality reports for the clients as well.• Using Geotester, I efficiently booked in new clients while seamlessly integrating new worksheets and incorporating additional samples for Q181C Diret Shear, T123 PH, T185 and T1010 Chloride testing.• I conducted Uniaxial Compressive Strength (UCS) tests on rock specimens, unraveling their strength characteristics and accurately determining Young's modulus.• Diligently sorting rocks from core sample boxes based on required depths, packaging them meticulously, and facilitating their dispatch to external clients for testing.• Performed Brazilian tensile strength tests on rock samples.• Conducting Swell collapse tests on soil specimen under different loading conditions including the reports.• Preparing Direct Shear Q181C reports for clients with reliable results.• Monitoring, scheduling and managing Q181C register for efficiency and timely completion of pending work requests.• Conducting and reporting PH T123 and Electrical Resistivity T185 tests on various soil specimen.• Conducting PSD for accurate soil descriptions required for reporting.• Hands on experience with conducting CU multi-stage triaxial, triaxial permeability, UU multi stage and UU single stage triaxial tests. (GDS equipments)• Experience with conducting falling head permeability and slake durability.• Performing liquid limit and plastic limit using Casagrande apparatus to determine consistency and behaviour of soil.

Seven Hills, New South Wales, Australia

• Performing routine sampling and testing of soils and compaction testing for engineering projects.• Sampled aggregates and soils according to AS and RMS standards.• Data entry and management using GeoTester Software. • Determination of Maximum Converted Wet Density and the approximate difference between the field moisture content and the apparent Optimum Moisture Content of a road construction material. • Finding Dry Density and Moisture Relations (Standard and Modified) using Hilf Compaction (Rapid Method).• Conducting Plate load tests and Dynamic Cone Penetration tests on the site to determine geotechnical engineering properties like bearing capacity, the strength of soil, thickness, and settlements.• Experience with technical report writing for clients after conducting field tests.• Inspecting bored piles and logging soil to find socket material for safe design and construction.• Conducting Max - Min density analysis tests for fine grained soils.• Conducting point load testing (PLT) on core drilling samples from various depths, evaluating rock strength, measuring dimensions of test specimen and assessing its stability.• Experienced in soil sampling and logging for proposed pavement construction to ensure stable foundation and consistency of soil every 100 meters of the road from the roundabout of proposed site, including bringing 30 kg soil samples from each test pit to the lab for testing.

Harrington Park, New South Wales, Australia

South Granville, New South Wales, Australia

Kathmandu, Nepal

- Completing basic soil index tests such as moisture content, sieve and hydrometer analysis, Atterberg limit tests (LL and PL), specific gravity, Direct Shear (soil friction angle) and proctor moisture-density relationship.- Conducted site investigations alongside geotechnical engineers and field engineers for auger drilling, soil logging, sampling and in-situ tests comprising ofstandard penetration test (SPT).

Master Of Engineering - Meng, Geotechnical Engineering

Professional Year In Engineering, Geotechnical Engineering

The Professional Year in Engineering is an Australian government specified program providing overseas qualified engineers.

Bachelor'S Degree, Civil Engineering

High School Diploma, Science