Profile:
Academic institution
with both undergraduate
and graduate degree
programs
Challenge:
Instruct students in how
to perform advanced triaxial tests and
cyclic triaxial tests
for various research
projects and classroom
laboratory exercises.
Solution:
The University
acquired Geocomp’s fully
automated stress-path
triaxial apparatus in
March 2003 and is using
the equipment to perform
Ko consolidated
undrained triaxial tests
on undisturbed samples
of inorganic and organic
silts.
Benefits:
According to
Professor Baxter,
Assistant Professor in
both the Department of
Ocean Engineering and
the Department of Civil
and Environmental
Engineering, “Geocomp
offers equipment with
excellent features and
capabilities as well as
tremendous service.” He
says, “It allows us to
perform sophisticated triaxial tests that are
virtually impossible
with traditional testing
equipment. “ For
example, Baxter
explained, “We just
performed a Ko
consolidated, axial
extension test. And
because the equipment
and software are so
user-friendly,” he said,
“it doesn’t take
graduate students months
just to learn how to run
a test; it gives us more
time to interpret the
results.
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“Geocomp offers
equipment with excellent
features and
capabilities as well as
tremendous service. It
allows us to perform
sophisticated triaxial
tests that are virtually
impossible with
traditional testing
equipment….And because
the equipment and
software are so
user-friendly, it
doesn’t take graduate
students months just to
learn how to run a test;
it gives us more time to
interpret the results.”
Christopher D. P. Baxter
Assistant Professor,
Departments of
Ocean/Civil and
Environmental
Engineering
University of Rhode
Island, USA |
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