Phase 4B: Commissioning

Following the BAA of December 1988, ANS&A proposed the creation of a new physical modeling research center at the Waterways Experiment Station. This new center would have, as its main research tool, a large beam centrifuge. The center would be attached to the Geotechnical Laboratory at WES, but...

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Main Authors: Schofield, Andrew N, Steedman, R. S
Format: Report
Language:English
Subjects:
APPURTENANCES
BUILDINGS
CENTRIFUGES
Civil Engineering
EARTHQUAKE ENGINEERING
FOREIGN REPORTS
GEOTECHNICAL ENGINEERING
INSTRUMENTATION
MODEL TESTS
SAFETY
SOIL MECHANICS
Structural Engineering and Building Technology
UNITED KINGDOM
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Summary:Following the BAA of December 1988, ANS&A proposed the creation of a new physical modeling research center at the Waterways Experiment Station. This new center would have, as its main research tool, a large beam centrifuge. The center would be attached to the Geotechnical Laboratory at WES, but would provide research facilities across the breadth of engineering research undertaken by the Corps of Engineers. The new Center was inaugurated on 21 November 1997, and this final technical report records the history and arguments in favour of centrifuge modeling as a powerful research technique in civil engineering. In the months since its commissioning the Centrifuge Research Center at WES has proved a world class facility and is already generating important data in a range of fields including geotechnical engineering, earthquake and environmental engineering, cold regions engineering, mobility, blast effects and groundwater studies. See also phase 4a, AD-B223 742.