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News May 2006
 
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.
 
 
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