Location
Geotechnical Laboratory
We maintain a well-equipped geotechnical engineering laboratory for teaching and research support
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Address
Fulton Building
DD1 4HR
Campus
City Campus
Accessibility
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About
We offer extensive facilities for element testing and physical modelling, including Scotland’s only geotechnical centrifuge facility.
Equipment and facilities
- Geotechnical centrifuge
- Independent linear actuators and containers for 1-g physical modelling
- Instrumentation and mobile (modular) data acquisition
- Triaxial cells
- Stress path cell
- Direct shear apparatus (conventional and large-volume/large-displacement)
- Oedometer cells (including constant rate of strain)
- Soil classification
- Hydraulic presses for soil consolidation
- Pluviation facilities
- Access to advanced element test equipment through the SMART laboratory
- Numerical modelling and simulation (FEM/DEM)