A geotechnical centrifuge for TUKS
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Authors
Jacobsz, Schalk Willem
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South African Institution of Civil Engineering
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.
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Keywords
Advantages, Physical modelling, Geotechnical, Centrifuge modelling
Sustainable Development Goals
Citation
Jacobsz, SW 2011, 'A geotechnical centrifuge for TUKS', Civil Engineering, vol. 19, no. 3, pp.46-48. [http://www.civils.org.za/]