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Hollow Cylinder/Torsional Shear Soil Element Test Apparatus

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Tender Closed
RFx ID : 30038961
Tender Name : Hollow Cylinder/Torsional Shear Soil Element Test Apparatus
Reference # : 24-452
Open Date : Thursday, 22 August 2024 3:00 PM (Pacific/Auckland UTC+12:00)
Close Date  : Monday, 9 September 2024 3:00 PM (Pacific/Auckland UTC+12:00)
Department/Business Unit : Planning, Finance & ITS
Tender Type : Request for Quotations (RFQ)
Tender Coverage : Sole Agency  [?]
Categories :
  • 41000000 - Laboratory and Measuring and Observing and Testing Equipment
Regions:
  • Canterbury
Exemption Reason : None
Required Pre-qualifications : None
Contact : Sun Jeong
sun.jeong@canterbury.ac.nz
Alternate Physical Delivery Address  : N/A
Alternate Physical Fax Number  : N/A
Agency Address :
Overview

University of Canterbury is seeking to purchase a dynamic cyclic hollow cylinder-torsional shear (HCTS) apparatus. This instrument is for the purpose of monotonic and cyclic strength and stiffness testing of soil elements (sand-sized particles and finer) at frequencies up to at least 1 Hz and to large shear strains.
This project is to enable a wide range of stress paths and deformation modes to be applied to soil elements, including shearing soil to very large shear strains with monotonic and cyclic HCTS tests.
UC is aiming to enable multiple research teams within UC to continue conducting high-quality research into the behaviour of NZ soils when undergoing numerous important loading conditions. These include:
• Earthquake shaking (including soil response when undergoing liquefaction);
• Natural slope instability and large shear strain response (e.g., slope failures induced by heavy rainfall and/or ground shaking);
• Engineered slope instability (e.g., instability of tailings storage facilities/embankment dams [Fanni et al., 2023]);
• General response of soils undergoing complex stress paths (e.g., changes in soil stress states during excavation, building and retaining wall construction, groundwater fluctuation, etc.)

RFx Outcome

This tender has been awarded.

  • GDS Instruments - Unit 28-32, Murrel Green Business Park, Hook, rg27 9gr, UNITED KINGDOM

Award Date: Tuesday, 15 October 2024 (Pacific/Auckland UTC+13:00)
Date RFx was completed/updated: Tuesday, 15 October 2024 12:32 PM (Pacific/Auckland UTC+13:00)