From the Lab
Geotechnical Testing for Offshore Engineering |
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GeoTesting Express provides state-of-the-art advanced and dynamic soil testing services for offshore applications. Our advanced and dynamic soil-testing laboratory is equipped with some of the best automated equipment available in the industry. It works around the clock, seven days a week to provide fast turnover of high quality results.
Our advanced and dynamic soil testing staff and equipment can help determine:
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shear strength, stress path, strains, damping, liquefaction characteristics and post-cyclic shear strength for a wide variety of offshore problems including foundation design, slope stability, movement from cyclic loading, dynamic response oil damping, liquefaction and shear strength associated with gravity structures, pipelines, suction caissons, anchor holdings, pile capacity, wind farms and other offshore developments. Our advanced and dynamic soil testing capabilities include:
- Triaxial Shear (undrained, consolidated undrained and consolidated drained)
- Ko Triaxial consolidation with shear
- Stress Path Triaxial along any stress path
- Cyclic Triaxial (drained and undrained)
- Multi-axial cyclic triaxial (drained and undrained)
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- Direct Shear
- Direct Simple Shear
- Cyclic Direct Simple Shear
- Resonant Column
The modular design of our automated equipment allows us to reconfigure our test stations to meet the day-to-day scheduling demands of offshore projects.
Our staff has offshore experience in the North Sea, Mediterranean Sea, Sea of Japan, Atlantic Coast, Pacific Coast, Gulf of Mexico, and the Orinoco Basin.
We can provide you with appropriate shipping containers and procedures to safely transport undisturbed sea floor samples from anywhere in the world to our Massachusetts facilities. Final test results can be provided electronically to help meet the demanding schedules of offshore engineers.
Gary Torosian, 978-635-0424,
gtt@geotesting.com 
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Who's New
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Geoff Webster, P.E., is a senior project engineer in Geocomp’s Consulting Division, where he acts as client liaison, and manages work schedules and resource budgets on a variety of projects. He has 24 years of experience in engineering and construction in both public and private sectors.
Before joining Geocomp, Geoff was project engineer at a Wilmington, Massachusetts firm, performing geotechnical studies and preparing reports for a variety of projects. Before moving to Massachusetts, he was the principal engineer at Florida Testing of Daytona, Inc., where he performed geotechnical studies involving soil mechanics, shallow and deep foundation, slope stability, and consolidation settlement. Other private sector experience includes project management, and construction/quality assurance of heavy highway and civil projects.
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In the public sector, Mr. Webster was construction engineer for the City of Ormond Beach, Florida, where he provided overall engineering management for multiple capital improvement projects averaging $16 million annually. Geoff was also the municipal design team engineer/drainage engineer for the City of Ocala, Florida. He earned his bachelor’s degree in civil engineering from Northern Arizona University, and his MS in structural and geotechnical engineering from the University of Central Florida. Geoff is a registered professional engineer in Massachusetts, Florida, Utah and North Carolina.
Lois G. Schwarz, Ph.D., is one of the newer members of Geocomp’s Atlanta office, and she joins the firm as a geotechnical engineer. She has a 10+ year career as a consultant, researcher and university professor in geotechnical engineering.
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Dr. Schwarz’s professional consulting experience includes serving as project engineer at Burns Cooley Dennis, Inc. and also involvement with consulting projects while on the faculty of the Universities of Alabama in Huntsville and Birmingham, and the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville. Dr. Schwarz is skilled at designing and implementing material and application testing systems ranging from lab- to full-size scale. She is also experienced with design and development of laboratory facilities and curriculum programs for research and teaching geotechnical and materials engineering. Lois earned her Ph.D. in civil engineering from Northwestern University, and her master and bachelor degrees in civil engineering from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. 
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