Research Centre for Geotechnical and Railway Engineering

Laboratory Equipment


Large -Scale Cylindrical Triaxial Rig with Dynamic Actuator

Constant Normal Stiffness Shear Apparatus (for testing ballast-geosynthetic interfaces)

New Large-Scale Consolidometer (650mm diameter for soft soil testing)

Soft Soil Grouting Equipment
(for Lime Injection in Coastal Tracks)

Pressure Plate Extractor
(for determining soil-water characteristic curve)

Dynamic Rail Simulator

Large-Scale Consolidometer for improvement of Formation Soil

Large-Scale Cylindrical Triaxial Apparatus

High Pressure Rock Triaxial Apparatus
(testing shear strength of ballast)

Large-Scale Permeability Apparatus (drainage of ballast)


Computer Driven, Dynamic cubicle Triaxial Righ with Unrestrained Sides showing Ballast Track Loading
 

 

 

 
Last reviewed: 1 November, 2011

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