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    Geotechnical centrifuge modeling is a technique for testing physical scale models of geotechnical engineering systems such as natural and man-made slopes...
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    harm. Geotechnical centrifuge modeling is used for physical testing of models involving soils. Centrifuge acceleration is applied to scale models to scale...
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    zones. Geotechnical centrifuge modeling is another method of testing physical-scale models of geotechnical problems. The use of a centrifuge enhances...
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    properties and geotechnical design, Thomas Telford, p. 216, ISBN 978-0727729828 Schofield, A. N. (1980), "Cambridge geotechnical centrifuge operations",...
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    initial work involved geotechnical centrifuge modeling and she developed many of the scaling laws used for geotechnical centrifuge modeling of contaminant transport...
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    engineering Engineering geology Geotechnical centrifuge modeling Geotechnical engineering Geotechnical engineering (Offshore) Geotechnics Hydrogeology, aquifer...
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    Chinese Institute of Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering for his significant contributions in geotechnical engineering. In 2007, he received the...
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  • laboratories that support several types of experimental work: geotechnical centrifuge research, shake table tests, large-scale structural testing, tsunami...
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    dynamic compaction). Springman combines physical modelling in a geotechnical centrifuge with numerical modelling so that the data may be used to develop, calibrate...
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    Pokrovsky, Soviet physicist, inventor and author, and pioneer in geotechnical centrifuge modeling (d. 1979) Cen Chunxuan, a British-educated Chinese official...
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  • geotechnical centrifuge at Deltares, Delft, the Netherlands" (PDF). Proceedings of the 4th European Conference on Physical Modelling in Geotechnics....
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    Malcolm Bolton (category Geotechnical engineers)
    Schofield Centrifuge Centre for Geotechnical Processes and Construction. He published extensively in the field of fundamental soil mechanics, geotechnical centrifuge...
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  • Rankine Lecture (category Geotechnical engineering)
    Library - The Rankine Lecture British Geotechnical Association - List of Rankine Lecturers British Geotechnical Association Géotechnique Rankine-lecture...
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  • Jorge G. Zornberg (category Geotechnical engineers)
    Engineering in the geotechnical engineering program at the University of Texas at Austin. He has over 35 years' experience in geotechnical and geoenvironmental...
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    Ioannis Anastasopoulos (category Geotechnical engineers)
    in geotechnical earthquake engineering and soil-structure interaction, combining numerical and experimental methods. At the ETH Zürich Geotechnical Centrifuge...
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  • research focus was geotechnical earthquake engineering, studying problems of liquefaction and soil-structure interaction using the centrifuge facility in the...
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    plate anchors assessed through centrifuge tests in kaolin clay". In Gourvenec & White (eds.). Frontiers in Offshore Geotechnics II. London: Taylor & Francis...
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  • usually considered to be a weak point in the system. A dynamic centrifuge test works to model the landfill in a scaled-down form. Typically in this approach...
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  • Ronald F. Scott (category Geotechnical engineers)
    Scott (April 9, 1929 – August 16, 2005) was a British-born, American geotechnical engineer. An internationally recognized authority on the mechanics of...
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    necessitated ship impact testing and modelling. Geotechnical centrifuge testing was conducted using a 1:200 scale model of a vessel bow section and seawall...
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  • Professor Andrew N. Schofield for pioneering the use of centrifuge modelling for geotechnical and civil engineering. 2018 John Bartlett for his outstanding...
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    turbomachinery laboratory founded by Sir John Horlock in 1973), the Geotechnical Centrifuge Laboratory, the Microelectronics Research Centre (1992), the Electrical...
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    removal of water from a location. This may be done by wet classification, centrifugation, filtration, or similar solid-liquid separation processes, such as removal...
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  • Dynamics TRIGA Mk. II nuclear fission reactor, a large scale centrifuge for geotechnical testing, and an axial tester commonly used for testing New York...
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    components and materials. These include the geomechanics laboratory, geotechnical centrifuge, large structures testing laboratory (LSTL), testing and structures...
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  • Carleton Lab hosts various specialized laboratories within its proper: Centrifuge Laboratory Concrete Materials Laboratory Donald M. Burmister Soil Mechanics...
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  • laboratories that support several types of experimental work: geotechnical centrifuge research, shake-table tests, large-scale structural testing, tsunami...
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    contains several laboratories, including the mechatronics lab and the geotechnical centrifuge research center. The O.T. Swanson Multidisciplinary Design Laboratory...
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    In geotechnical engineering, drilling fluid, also known as drilling mud, is used to aid the drilling of boreholes into the earth. Used while drilling oil...
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    Chacko, J.M. (August 2011). "Centrifuge Modeling of Seismically Induced Uplift for the BART Transbay Tube". Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering...
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