24/5/2006: GDS Instruments equipment at the
opening of the Geotechnical Research Laboratory and Centrifuge
at The University of Nottingham, UK
In March 2006, a new Geotechnical Research
Laboratory was opened by the University of Nottingham. GDS
Instruments is pleased to be part of this impressive new venture.
Below is a summary of the equipment being used for their research.
GDS 10kN/200Nm Hollow
Cylinder Apparatus (GDSHCA)
GDS Combined Dynamic Cyclic Simple
Shear System (DCSS)
GDS 100kN/64MPa High Pressure Triaxial
Automated System (HPTAS)
GDS Advanced Triaxial Testing System
(ADVTTS)
GDS Large Diameter Cyclic Triaxial
Testing System (LDCTTS)
The Nottingham Geotechnical Research
Laboratory and Centrifuge
The University of Nottingham has a long history of conducting
fundamental and applied research into soil and rock mechanics. Now,
with the appointment of Professor Hai-Sui Yu to the Chair in
Geotechnical Engineering, the Nottingham Centre for Geomechanics (NCG)
has opened a major new research facility, the Nottingham
Geotechnical Centrifuge and Research Laboratory.
The purpose of this centre is to provide a supportive and
resourceful environment that encourages creative and scholarly
activity. It is committed to conducting internationally leading
research and to using the combined expertise and resources of the
40-strong staff and researchers. They are there to help industrial
partners in the construction, mining and oil industries that are
looking for solutions to the many challenging practical problems
that they face.
In order to facilitate this research, NCG has newly commissioned
research equipment which includes a geotechnical centrifuge, a
truck-based in-situ soil testing facility, hollow cylinder
apparatus, high-pressure triaxial apparatus, dynamic triaxial
apparatus, dynamic cyclic simple-shear apparatus and a full-scale
railway testing facility. For rock testing, the control system for
their rock-testing equipment has been updated including their 100
tonne RDP stiff press, 150mm shear box and instrumented drilling
rig. Also, the centre is well equipped with state-of-the-art
computer facilities to support their cutting-edge research on
constitutive and numerical modelling.
