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New Technical Support Videos

Alongside our new remote installation videos, GDS have produced some useful technical support videos. These can found on our YouTube technical support playlist. Below is an one of the videos as an example.

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Having fun at the GDS test facility today testing a customers sample prior to shipment.

Having fun at the GDS test facility today testing a customers sample prior to shipment. A 500mm diameter x 1000mm height aggregate sample (our largest sample to date) failing under load in our 250kN frame, with new effective stress application via internal vacuum rather than traditional triaxial cell and confining pressure.

HLF 

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Trilab Installation of Two Triaxial Systems

Trilab has recently installed another 2 GDS triaxial automated systems, to add to their 4 existing Critical State Locus triaxial machines. 

GDSTAS 

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Remote Installations at GDS

Due to travel restrictions, changing government guidelines & isolation periods after travel, GDS have introduced a new remote installation solution to allow customers to get their apparatus set-up and operational without the need for an installation engineer on-site.

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GDS Supply Apparatus To 86% Of The World’s Top 50 Universities

QS Quacquarelli Symonds is the world’s leading provider of services, analytics, and insight to the global higher education sector. Their research is published on their flagship website www.topuniversities.com. Here you can compare the top universities by region and subject.

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"The Instrumental" By Tanya Rappolt

Located in our sales reception, hangs a piece of stunning artwork crafted by Tanya Rappolt, an administrator at GDS. 

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Geolabs Resonant Column

Geolabs feature GDS' Resonant Column apparatus in a recent article, explaining the benefits of the system and how they use it in their commercial laboratory. 

GDSRCA 

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Klohn Crippen Berger used GDS' EMDCSS device as part of the laboratory testing program for Fundao Mine Tailings Dam Failure

As part of the advance laboratory testing program for Fundao Mine Tailings Dam Failure, KCB’s Vancouver Geotechnical Laboratory used GDS Instruments' EMDSS device to perform direct simple shear tests in order to obtain undrained peak and large strain shear strengths on monotonic simple direct shear tests; undrained response to cyclic loading on cyclic simple shear tests; and undrained response to cyclic loading on cyclic simple shear test with static bias.

EMDCSS 

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Installation of Large Diameter Cyclic Triaxial Testing System at University of South Carolina

In February 2019, GDS completed the installation of a Large Diameter Cyclic Triaxial Testing System at the University of South Carolina. The system was purchased to expand the laboratory capability to tests ballast samples with diameter of 150mm and 300mm.

DYNTTS  ELDYN  HLF  GDSIVC 

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Dynamic Pressure Control

GDS’s Dynamic Pressure Controller (SIG3) is a dynamic pump for the precise & rapid regulation and measurement of fluid pressure and volume change.

DYNTTS  ELDYN  HCA 

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