Engineering Research Equipment Grants: Refurbishment of a Surplus Centrifuge for Geotechnical Use

这项行动是为了支持翻新和将政府剩余的离心机转化为岩土工程使用，该离心机已由德克萨斯农工大学土木工程系获得。（土工离心机用于土壤和岩石的实验和测试）。实验室空间专门用于安装该设施，其中包括样品制备和数据收集和减少的空间。在离心机中进行岩土试验是仅次于研究的全尺寸试验，也是验证理论和设计计算的一种手段。它在土木工程中特别有用，因为在土木工程中，全面的实验通常是非常昂贵的。德克萨斯农工大学的这一设施为利用目前在美国可用的特殊能力进行岩土离心机研究和测试所需的基础设施做出了重要贡献；尤其是加州大学戴维斯分校、科罗拉多大学博尔德分校和伦斯勒理工学院的大型岩土技术离心机即将投入使用。

This action is to support the refurbishing and the conversion to geotechnical use of a government surplus centrifuge that has been obtained by the Civil Engineering Department at Texas A&M University. (Geotechnical centrifuges are used for experimentation and testing of soil and rock). Laboratory space has been dedicated to the installation of this facility, with space for sample preparation and data collection and reduction. Geotechnical testing in a centrifuge is second only to full scale testing for research, and as a means of verifying theories and design calculations. It is particularly useful in civil engineering, for which full scale experimentation is usually prohibitively expensive. This facility at Texas A&M University provides an important contribution to the infrastructure needed to utilize the exceptional capability for geotechnical centrifuge research and testing that is now becoming available in the United States; especially with the large geotechnical centrifuges coming on line at the University of California at Davis, the University of Colorado at Boulder, and at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.