A geotechnical centrifuge for TUKS

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Jacobsz, Schalk Willem

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South African Institution of Civil Engineering

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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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Advantages, Physical modelling, Geotechnical, Centrifuge modelling

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Jacobsz, SW 2011, 'A geotechnical centrifuge for TUKS', Civil Engineering, vol. 19, no. 3, pp.46-48. [http://www.civils.org.za/]