Facilities and equipment
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