Research Equipment for Geomechanics Testing

首席研究员目前有一个国家科学基金会的赠款，让他 研究土压力的支持系统上开发的深 挖掘，例如，对于城市中主要建筑物的深地下室， 和地铁。 他正在进行实地测量， 样品和测量其物理性能，并执行 理论分析。 这笔赠款是提供资金购买两个 需要专门的土壤测试设备， 测量土壤样品的相关物理性质。 这些 然后，将得到的土壤特性纳入分析中 开发更好的设计土压力预测方法 时间

The principal investigator currently has an NSF grant to allow him to study earth pressures that are developed on support systems for deep excavations, e.g., for deep basements of major buildings in cities, and for subways. He is taking field measurements, obtaining soil samples and measuring their physical properties, and performing theoretical analyses. This grant is to provide funds to purchase two items of specialized soil testing equipment that are needed to measure relevant physical properties of the soil samples. These resulting soil properties will then be incorporated into the analyses to develop better methods of predicting earth pressures at design time.