Geotechnical centrifuge facility

Configuration: Beam type

Platform radius: 4.5m

Model area:

1.0m x 1.2m (up to 0.66m height)

0.7m x 1.2m (up to 1.2m height)

Acceleration range: 10 gravities to 200 gravities

Payload: 2.5 tons at 100 gravities

Capacity: 250 g-tons

Run-up time to 200 gravities: 6 minutes

In-flight balancing range: 0 to ± 100kN

In-flight balancing time: 60 seconds

Good swing-out at g-level

Allows testing of 1/N times reduced small-scale physical models of geotechnical structures subjected to various types of loadings at N times gravity (N = scale factor or gravity level).