In October 2008 Jerry Sutton attended the 25th China National Symposium on Geotechnical Testing held in Hangzhou, China and hosted by Zhejiang University. While Earth Products China sponsored the main conference and then organised a GDS Users group to be held immediately after the conference for three days.
he format of the users group consisted of the first day presentations were given by Jerry Sutton of GDS, Tony Zhan, Jian Zhou and Huang Bo Zhejiang University as well as Xie Kanghe and Shaolong Tang from the Yangtze River Research Institute. Subjects ranged from current research trends around the world to photo imagery for measurement of triaxial sample volume changes. The presentations were found to be interesting and informative and GDS would like to express their thanks to the presenters for their time in preparing and presenting such informative sessions.
The following days of the GDS users group was spent in the laboratory at Zhejiang University. The first day concentration was given to the 10Hz Dynamic triaxial testing system presented and demonstrated by HuangBo of Zhejiang University and George Cui of EPC. This was followed by an interesting presentation of the HKUST volume change system by Tony Zhan of Zhejiang University. The final presentation of the users group was made by Jian Zhou, HuangBo and George Cui of the large diameter HCA system.
Overall the users group was very interesting and we hope promotes great future collaboration between GDS users in China. GDS Instruments would like to thank Zhejiang University for agreein g to host the event and Earth Products China for organising such a successful and smoothly run event.