A geotechnical centrifuge for TUKS

dc.contributor.author	Jacobsz, Schalk Willem
dc.date.accessioned	2011-05-27T06:42:25Z
dc.date.available	2011-05-27T06:42:25Z
dc.date.issued	2011-04
dc.description.abstract	The Department of Civil Engineering at the University of Pretoria has recently been awarded a grant from the National Research Foundation (NRF) to acquire a geotechnical centrifuge. Geotechnical centrifuges are used to accelerate soil models to create a stress field in the model analogous to that occurring in the full-scale situation being modelled. At present there are approximately 110 geotechnical centrifuges around the world and only one in Africa, namely at Mansoura University in Egypt.	en_US
dc.description.sponsorship	National Research Foundation (NRF)	en_US
dc.identifier.citation	Jacobsz, SW 2011, 'A geotechnical centrifuge for TUKS', Civil Engineering, vol. 19, no. 3, pp.46-48. [http://www.civils.org.za/]	en_US
dc.identifier.issn	1021-2000
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/2263/16638
dc.language.iso	en	en_US
dc.publisher	South African Institution of Civil Engineering	en_US
dc.rights	South African Institution of Civil Engineering	en_US
dc.subject	Advantages	en_US
dc.subject	Physical modelling	en_US
dc.subject	Geotechnical	en_US
dc.subject	Centrifuge modelling	en_US
dc.title	A geotechnical centrifuge for TUKS	en_US
dc.type	Article	en_US