Enhanced Instrumentation of a Soil Mechanics Laboratory
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This project upgrade a soil mechanics laboratory, utilizes modern               data acquisition techniques, and constructs a device to                         demonstrate the flow of seepage water through earth dams.  Goals                are to enhance student laboratory experience and enable students                to use modern data acquisition equipment.  The use of modern data               acquisition techniques will replace the routine hand reduction of               data after testing is completed with observations of real-time                  plots of data during testing.  This rapid feedback will enable                  students to more easily relate observed behavior with engineering               properties derived from test data.  Major equipment acquisitions                include transducers to enable electronic acquisition of data from               existing test equipment, two sets of signal conditioning                        amplifiers, and two microcomputer-based data acquisition                        systems to collect, reduce, and display data during testing.                    Experiments to be instrumented include unconfined and triaxial                  compression, consolidation, and direct shear tests.  This project               is significant because it gives students experience with modern                 data acquisition techniques and reduces the monotonous hand                     collection of data during testing, freeing the students to direct               more attention to specimen behavior and corresponding diagrams of               test results during laboratory periods.
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{'Code': '9120', 'Text': 'CROSS-DIRECTORATE PROGRAMS'}
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