{"id":279,"date":"2020-09-02T14:30:21","date_gmt":"2020-09-02T21:30:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/clin\/?page_id=279"},"modified":"2023-09-29T11:20:47","modified_gmt":"2023-09-29T18:20:47","slug":"facilities","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/clin\/facility-photo\/facilities\/","title":{"rendered":"Facilities"},"content":{"rendered":"
Experimental Facilities (Click to see photos)<\/strong><\/a><\/h5>\n
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  1. Distributed Fiber Optics Systems (Luna)<\/strong><\/em>: continuous strain and temperature measurement with applications to performance monitoring for piles, underground structures, retaining structures, pavements, etc.<\/li>\n
  2. Static triaxial shear apparatus: <\/em><\/strong>elastic modulus, cohesion, friction angle, stress-strain curves, and hydraulic conductivity<\/li>\n
  3. Bender element<\/strong><\/em>: small strain modulus, shear wave velocity<\/li>\n
  4. Cyclic triaxial shear apparatus<\/strong>: <\/em>cyclic stress and strain behavior, shear modulus, damping ratio, soil liquefaction, and resilient modulus.<\/li>\n
  5. Unconfined compression strength (UCS) Test<\/em><\/strong><\/li>\n
  6. Static simple direct shear apparatus<\/em><\/strong><\/li>\n
  7. California bearing ratio (CBR) test<\/em><\/strong><\/li>\n
  8. Oedometer: <\/em><\/strong>consolidation test<\/li>\n
  9. Freeze-thaw test: <\/em><\/strong>(size 750mm x 750 mm x750 mm, temperature range: -20 to 60o<\/sup>C ): test Geosynthetics-unreinforced\/reinforced soils, impose one-dimensional heat transfer, can monitor frost heave and changes in moisture migration, strain, and temperature in soils\/geosynthetics<\/li>\n
  10. Plate loading test:<\/em><\/strong> (box size 750mm x 750 mm x750 mm, plate size=150 mm, loading: static and dynamic): test Geosynthetics-unreinforced\/reinforced soils, impose static or cyclic loading, can monitor settlement, bearing pressure after freeze-thaw cycles, and strain in the geosynthetics.<\/li>\n
  11. Surface erosion apparatus <\/em><\/strong>(rotating type)<\/li>\n
  12. Silverson high-speed shear mixer<\/em><\/strong>: mixing, emulsifying, homogenizing, disintegrating and dissolving, e.g. disperse and exfoliate nanotubes and graphene.<\/li>\n
  13. XRD and SEM<\/em><\/strong>: located in CAMTEC<\/li>\n
  14. Novel curing box for stabilized soil<\/strong>: spread the moisture uniformly and allow changing the curing temperature from 20 to 40 Celsius degree<\/li>\n
  15. Sieve analyses<\/strong>: <\/em>grain size distribution<\/li>\n
  16. Soil compaction<\/strong>: <\/em>optimum moisture content, maximum dry density<\/li>\n
  17. Atterberg limits<\/em><\/strong><\/li>\n
  18. Water contents<\/em><\/strong><\/li>\n
  19. Specific gravity<\/em><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
    Numerical TOOLS<\/strong><\/h5>\n
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    1. Plaxis 2D\/3D<\/em><\/strong>: continuum finite element analysis<\/li>\n
    2. Abaqus 2D\/3D<\/em><\/strong>: continuum finite element analysis<\/li>\n
    3. Integrated Analysis Program (IAP)<\/em><\/strong>: <\/em>integrated analyses of superstructure and foundation using STAAD.PRO and in-house subroutine developed by our team\"\"<\/li>\n
    4. Analyses of single piles and pile groups under scour conditions<\/em><\/strong>: considering scour-hole dimensions and including the API and FHWA specifications, Matlab codes developed by Linlab (request via chenglin918@uvic.ca<\/a> )<\/li>\n
    5. AmRetain<\/em><\/strong>: sheet pile analysis and design<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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