Geo Model Laboratory
Applied research in soil-structure interaction requires a wide range of expertise and experienced personnel, (generic) & advanced test facilities, and space to design, build and then conduct the desired experiments. All this is brought together in the Geo Model Laboratory at Deltares.
Geo Model Laboratory technical personnel and engineers combine a wide range of required expertise and skills, such as: mechanical engineering, instrumentation, electronics, data acquisition, drawing and design with their long experience gained while performing a diverse spectrum of experiments for various applications.
Some of these experiments are carried out in generic test facilities that allow regularly recurring research questions to be answered relatively quickly.
Examples include:
- Climate chambers for experiments with specific temperature requirements;
- The large triaxial cell for peat samples and coarse granular material;
- A number of advanced model tanks in various sizes in which soil packages with predetermined specifications can be built up;
- Set-ups for investigating dike failure mechanisms.
However, in consultation with our clients and researchers, very specific test set-ups are also designed and built in which very specific solutions are sought for the challenges in the world of geotechnics and soil-structure interaction.
The extensive knowledge and experience of our researchers and technicians, combined with the possibilities offered by the Geo Model laboratory, provide an extremely strong basis for thorough and in-depth physical and numerical research.
