Jacobsz, Schalk Willem2011-05-272011-05-272011-04Jacobsz, SW 2011, 'A geotechnical centrifuge for TUKS', Civil Engineering, vol. 19, no. 3, pp.46-48. [http://www.civils.org.za/]1021-2000http://hdl.handle.net/2263/16638The 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.enSouth African Institution of Civil EngineeringAdvantagesPhysical modellingGeotechnicalCentrifuge modellingArticle