TECHNICAL
SERVICES AND FACILITIES
DEPARTMENT
OF GEOLOGICAL SCIENCES AND GEOLOGICAL ENGINEERING
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Electron microprobe
analysis
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X-ray diffraction
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Isotope geochemistry
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Inductively-Coupled
Plasma Mass Spectrometry (ICP-MS)
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40Ar-39Ar
geochronology
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Numerical
modelling for geomechanics (Map 3D, RocScience, Hasca)
DEPARTMENT OF MINING ENGINEERING
- Rock strength testing
(including Uniaxial, Triaxial, Brazilian, Point Load, Direct Shear tests)
- In-situ 3-D Ground
Stress Tensor Analysis (using CSIR overcoring method)
- Backfill Analytical
Design and Testing:
- Strength,
- Bulk density,
- Moisture content,
- Slump,
- Percolation rate,
- Grain size distribution,
- Specific gravity/true
solids density,
- Blend analysis
DEPARTMENT OF CIVIL ENGINEERING
(RMC)
- Large-Scale Retaining Wall Test Facility (for testing
full-scale conventional and geosynthetic-reinforced soil walls and slopes)
- Shaking Table (to test soil-structure response under
simulated earthquake loading)
- Small-Scale Retaining Wall Test Facility (1/5-scale model
testing of earth structures)
- Temperature and Humidity Control Room (long-term creep
and stress relaxation testing of polymeric materials)
- In-soil testing of geosynthetics
- Index tensile testing of geosynthetics
DEPARTMENT OF CIVIL ENGINEERING (Queen's University)
- Large and conventional scale shear boxes
- Large and conventional scale triaxial test facilities
- Buried pipe testing cells: both hoop compression and biaxial loading
- Large scale buried infrastructure test pit (service and ultimate load testing of shallow buried structures, and investigations of trenchless technologies)
- Parallel plate loading of thermoplastic pipes
- Polymer manhole test cells
- A variety of geosynthetic test equipment, including tests under high overburden pressure
- Test facilities to evaluate geomembrane strength and durability
