Fiber optics-based technologies, quantifying and monitoring subsurface properties in thermal boreholes and wind farm applications.Īnd many laboratory characterizations of the soft soil properties.For the amusement park ride of the same name, see Log flume (ride).

Sailing through mud, evaluating the necessity of dredging and thus avoiding too often maintenance dredging.

Water injection dredging, utilizing as much as possible the natural forces for sediment management in ports and waterways.

Various deep-sea collectors, intending to minimize the seabed erosion during deep-sea mining operations.

Installation of monopiles used for offshore wind turbines.

Some of the recent experimental programs at WSF concerned:

Physics of Non-Newtonian flows and segregating behavior.

Breaching and cone formation in dredging applications.

Hydraulic sand and soft soil fill (flow and beaching).

Geotechnical stability of infrastructures under frequent inundation.

The Water and Soil Flume can be used for large scale model tests concerning, for example: – Fall cone to measure the undrained strength of soft soil samples. – Malvern to characterize the grain size distribution of soft soil samples. – Laser-based Particle Image Velocimetry to visualize the flow field velocity. DTS, DAS) for real-time monitoring of various subsurface properties. – Different fiber optics-based monitoring systems (e.g. – Several low and high tech rheometers to characterize the flow behavior of non-Newtonian soft soils. – Shear cell system to characterize sand segregation under the influence of shear flow. – Seepage-induced consolidation (SIC) to examine the permeability and compressibility of soft soil samples under larger stresses. – Sand concentration conductivity system.

And plenty of measurement devices to monitor and characterize properties of the soft soil-water mixture, for instance:.

The Plexiglas flume (25m length, 0.5m width, 0.7m depth).

carrying capacity of 500 kg weight of soil sample), allowing the movement in 6 degrees of freedom.

The hexapod platform used for multiaxial shearing and fluidization tests (with a max.The sand conditioning machine which is used to achieve a different level of compaction in a sand deposit using a beam with 5 vertical vibrating compaction needles.The clay factory with a production capacity of about 12 tons/day of clay with a desired strength/properties of up to 70 kPa undrained shear strength.The unique possibility of using sand and mud (cohesive sediment) in the flume.This carriage can also be used to pull or push an object horizontally through the soil-water mixture in the flume. The carriage and rail system on top of the in-ground concrete flume, which offers the possibility of towing an object in the flume with a controlled speed ranging from 1 mm/s up to 2.5 m/sec.The in-ground concrete flume (50 m length, 5.5 m width, 2.5 m depth) with the flexibility of constructing smaller compartments with glass panels in the main flume, allowing studies at different scales ranging from around 1m3 to 500 m3 test setup.

Some of the unique features of the Water and Soil Flume are:

Water flume