Dear colleagues,
Advantica (formerly British Gas Research) is relocating and some of our test
facilities have to go because of space restriction. One of the key pieces is
a full scale pipe loading rig. You don't need to pay Advantica anything but
you need the cost of dismantle, transport and re-assemble etc, and you need
a large lab! It is one of the only 2 similar pipe loading rigs in the world
(the other one in C-CORE, Canada).
We have all the drawings and specifications of the rig. Basically, the steel
box (for the pipe and soil) is 3x3m in plan (2.7m height). The whole set up
is 6.3x6.3m in plan, and you will need a 16x16m working area. It can do
up-lift pull test, lateral pull test and downward push test on 300mm dia
buried pipe using hydraulic rams (displacement or stress controlled), and
ring bending (diametral) push test on 750mm pipe. It will come with the
complete setup:
- all reaction beams
- all hydraulic jacks (10 tonnes each)
- all test pipes
- all LVDT transducers
- all load cell
- all tools
- computer logger etc
- a crane
- a sand dispenser
- a specially built stainless steel plough type batch mixer for clay
too much to list.
Interested parties please contact me directly for further details before end
of this month.
regards
Paul
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Dr Paul C. F. Ng
Senior Geotechnical Engineer
Advantica Technologies Ltd
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Loughborough
Leicestershire
LE11 3GR
UK
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