Phase 4B: Commissioning

Abstract

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.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Aug 01, 1998
Accession Number
ADA360829

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  • Andrew N. Schofield
  • R. S. Steedman

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Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Counter WMD
  • Ground and Sea Platforms
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Civil Engineering
  • Computational Science
  • Construction
  • Engineering
  • Engineers
  • Environment
  • Equations
  • Failure Mode And Effect Analysis
  • Geotechnical Engineering
  • Instrumentation
  • Materials
  • Mechanical Properties
  • Mechanics
  • Model Tests
  • Numerical Analysis
  • Research Facilities
  • Soil Mechanics

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  • Academic Conference Management
  • Geotechnical Engineering.
  • Research Science/Academic Research