Last month, Mike Bulley from GDS Instruments installed a Confined Multi-Directional Cyclic Simple Shear System in the USA at California State University – Los Angeles.
Dr. Kwan, Associate Professor in the Civil Engineering Department, and his students will use this equipment to more accurately represent in-situ boundary and loading conditions during an earthquake as a constant specimen height can be maintained while performing dynamic shear loading in any direction on the x-y plane. They will also be able to run tests using actual earthquake data and evaluate the liquefaction potential of their specimens under various conditions.
Dr. Kwan had used GDS systems in his previous employment, however this is the first GDS (Confined Multi-Directional Cyclic Simple Shear) System at California State University. We are excited to see where this system takes them in their exploration and look forward to working with them in the future. We would like to thank Dr. Kwan and his students for their hospitality and we look forward to seeing the results of their research!
About California State University - College of Engineering :
Located just a few miles from Downtown Los Angeles, Cal State College of Engineering encourages engagement with community through research. With 4 Faculty Research Labs within the College, Dr. Kwan's team is nestled within Civil Engineering as part of the Geotech Research Lab. Find out more about the important work and on-going research of the Geotech Research Lab: https://www.calstatela.edu/ecst/geotech