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A video featuring Karl Snelling, Managing Director, Jerry Sutton, Technical Director and Nick Warren, Associate Technical Director at GDS. Providing an overview of GDS values, competencies and capabilities.

GDS Instruments is organizing, together with key industry partners, two 2-day seminars on offshore CPT and Geotechnical Testing Technology. Guest speakers include Tom Lunne from Norwegian Geotechnical Institute (NGI), John Powell from Geolabs and Dr Sean Rees from the University of Canterbury to name a few. 

Mike Bulley a QA, Support and Installation Engineer from GDS Instruments, has recently returned from California State Polytechnic University, USA, where he installed a Temperature Controlled Advanced Dynamic Triaxial Testing System (DYNTTS).

To celebrate International Women's Day, GDS surprised female members of staff with a bunch of flowers, to say thank you for all the hard work they put in at GDS! 

NGI's laboratory in Oslo is equipped with a wide range of advanced testing facilities, including static and cyclic CAU/ CAD Triaxial, static and cyclic Direct Simple Shear, Constant Rate of Strain Oedometer, Resonant Column, Bender Elements and Ring Shear. Testing can also be performed at a wide range of temperatures, from in situ temperatures to over 100°C.

When performing stability tests for the purpose of designing dams and deep excavations, an essential component is the appropriate selection of strength parameters of soils. Due to the fact that on the shear surface we deal with, the principal stress direction rotates, it is important to determine the strength parameters for the compression and the extension loading conditions.

In this short video we demonstrate the hydraulically controlled cell lift on our 250kN load frame. The lifting mechanism allows users easy access to the sample without the need for an external lifting frame.

Diogo Teles a QA, Support and Installation Engineer from GDS Instruments, has recently returned from ITB Bandung in Indonesia, where he installed a GDS Enterprise Dynamic Triaxial Testing System (ELDYN). 

How to change a load cell and load ram in a GDS triaxial system

Soft clay is widely distributed in southeast coastal cities of China, such as Shanghai, Hangzhou and Wenzhou. It has been recognized as one of the most problematic soils in China because of its high water content, high compressibility, low permeability and low bearing capacity. In the past decades, a large number of infrastructure projects have been constructed on this kind of soil. After years of operation, large settlements of the subgrade have been observed.