School of Civil Engineering

Facilities and equipment

  1. Large Soil Direct Shear and Pull out Testing
  2. Large-Scale Triaxial Testing
  3. High Stress Consolidation Testing
  4. Slurry Consolidation Testing
  5. Instrumented Column Testing
  6. Soil Water Characteristic Curves
  7. Filtration Cell
  8. Soil Direct Shear Box and Consolidation
  9. Instrumented Large Columns
  1. Vane Shear Test
  2. Conventional Triaxial System (Hoek-Cell)
  3. Stereo Ultra-High-Speed Camera Facility
  4. The GEC Sensors
  5. Hybrid True Triaxial Testing Facility
  6. Biaxial/Impact Testing Facility
  7. Large Restrained Shrinkage Test
  8. Shotcrete Toughness Testing Facility
  9. Discrete Element Modelling (DEM)

5. Instrumented Column Testing

  • 1.2 m high by 200 mm diameter
  • Column, and associated moisture, suction, temperature, salinity and gas sensors, and data logger, was developed at UQ as a “standard test” for assessing the settling, self-weight consolidation and desiccation of tailings slurry
  • Can be deployed in laboratory-simulated desiccation and re-wetting, and under atmospheric conditions in the field, with a weather station

Instrumented Column Testing