St. John's Centifuge Modelling Facility

圣约翰离心机建模设施

• 批准号: 217072-2006
• 负责人: Phillips, Ryan
• 金额: $ 5.08万
• 依托单位: Centre for Cold Ocean Resources Engineering
• 依托单位国家: 加拿大
• 项目类别: Major Facilities Access Grants
• 财政年份: 2006
• 资助国家: 加拿大
• 起止时间: 2006-01-01 至 2007-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/ase-oro/Details-Detailles_eng.asp?id=327368
• 关键词: St.; John; Centifuge; Modelling; Facility

The St. John's Centrifuge Modelling Facility is a specialized national facility for reduced-scale physical modelling of civil engineering problems involving gravity-dependant material behaviour, particularly of soil, ice, and ice-rich soil. The basis of the technique is that self-weight effects between model and full-scale are made similar by subjecting the model to enhanced acceleration levels. Specific example applications are http://geotech.cv.titech.ac.jp/~cen-98/Library/MAIN.HTM. This facility has been used to investigate a wide range of  geotechnical issues ranging from  rock to sea-ice, from pipelines to foundations and from flow liquefaction to  oil sand production. Since 1993, the $5.7m centrifuge centre has been operational with about 90% utilization and upgrading of the facility to enhance its capabilities is ongoing. Canadian academics have had support to use the facility through an existing NSERC Major Facility Access grant  This grant provides 30% of the total support required for 1) The 8 person technical and research support staff; 2) maintenance and operation; and 3) other direct costs such as materials, supplies and small equipment for 2).  In the 4 year period to August 2005, this grant contributed to 41% of the facility's resources being dedicated to academic research with no charges for machine time or normal personnel requirements. This MFA application is made to obtain continued support for the staff essential for support to ensure that 30% of available facility time is reserved for academic researchers. This contribution is valued over $500k/annum based on potential commercial income. Significant national use has been made by academic and industrial users. There are over 120 such facilities in the world. Four other Canadian facilities are much smaller than that available in St John's, which is about the 8th largest and is the only centrifuge modelling facility in North America designed to model cold regions phenomena. The centrifuge also incorporates an earthquake actuator to model seismic events.

圣约翰离心机模拟设施是一个专门的国家设施，用于对土木工程问题进行缩小比例的物理模拟，这些问题涉及与重力有关的材料特性，特别是土壤、冰和富冰土壤的特性。该技术的基础是，通过使模型受到增强的加速级别，使模型和全尺寸之间的自重效应类似。具体的应用实例是http://geotech.cv.titech.ac.jp/~cen-98/Library/MAIN.HTM.该设施已被用于调查从岩层到海冰、从管道到基础以及从流动液化到油砂生产的广泛复杂的岩土工程问题。自1993年以来，耗资570万美元的离心机中心一直在运作，利用率约为90%，目前正在对该设施进行升级，以提高其能力。加拿大学术界通过现有的NSERC重大设施接入赠款获得了使用该设施的支持。这笔赠款提供了1)8人技术和研究支持人员；2)维护和运营；以及3)其他直接成本(如材料、用品和小型设备)所需总支持的30%。在截至2005年8月的4年期间，这笔赠款贡献了设施41%的资源专门用于学术研究，不收取机器时间或正常人员需求的费用。此MFA申请是为了获得对支持至关重要的工作人员的持续支持，以确保为学术研究人员保留30%的可用设施时间。根据潜在的商业收入，这笔捐款的价值超过50万美元/年。学术和工业用户已经在全国范围内大量使用。世界上有120多个这样的设施。另外四个加拿大设施比圣约翰的小得多，圣约翰大约是第八大离心机模拟设施，是北美唯一设计用来模拟寒冷地区现象的离心机模拟设施。离心机还安装了一个地震致动器来模拟地震事件。