Research Facilities

EXPERIMENTAL FACILITIES

Eight channel acoustic emission monitoring system and associated data collection and analysis software from Physical Acoustics Corp.

Ground Penetrating Radar equipment from Sensors & Software Inc
*100 and 500 MHz fully bi-static and smart cart configurable antennas
*100 MHz borehole antennas
*1000 MHz antenna

SYSCAL Kid Switch-24 multi-electrode switching system for electrical resistivity tomography from Heritage Geophysics.

Digital point load testing system from GCTS Testing Systems.

V-Meter Mark II for ultrasonic characterization of rock and concrete specimens with 54 kHz P-wave transducers.

Motic stereo microscope (up to 50x magnification) with pixelink digital camera

16 channel Spider8 (2 units) data acquisition system and Catman Easy software with a wide variety of loadcells and LVDTs for experimental studies.

Typical soil mechanics testing equipment including pnumatic consolidometers, lever arm consolidometers and direct shear equipment.

NUMERICAL MODELING FACILITIES

TNO Diana (version 9.2) 3D finite element software package

Suite of Roc Science software including Phase2 6.0, Slide 5.0, and RocData 4.0

Geo-Studio (basic edition) software

Particle Flow Code 2D (PFC 2D)

Ensoft Software Shaft 5.0 and and L Pile plus 5.0

A variety of analysis and presentation software included Surfer, Grapher, RockWorks, LogPlot, MatLab, MathCAD, and TableCurve 2D and 3D