CAEE Seminar: Geotechnical Centrifuge Modeling

The Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering department will be hosting a seminar featuring Professor of Civil and Architectural Engineering, Jeff Budiman. The topic of the seminar will be Geotechnical Centrifuge Modeling.

Centrifuge models have been used in research and practice of geotechnical engineering due to its unique ability to meet the fundamental requirement of prototype-model effective stress principle. Unlike other construction materials, the constitutive relationships of soils depend on the state of the effective stress, hence its stress-strain-strength relationships are specific for a soil at a state of stress level.

In modeling a geotechnical structure, the model should possess the stress similarity at any point corresponding to the point it represents in the prototype. The basic principle of centrifuge modeling describes a technique where the stress levels in prototype can be matched in the model through the centrifugation, will be presented.