Slurry Consolidation Device
This fully automatic electromechanical consolidation apparatus is designed to perform tests on specimens that have a large settlement e.g.
- > Very fine-grained clay
- > Tailing mud and mine waste
- > study was to determine the consolidation behaviour of clay slurries
- > phosphatic clays
- > waste materials such as dredging
- > Sea muds or oozy muds
- > Harbor muds
Special consolidation cells with electromechanical loading systems, made by Wille Geotechnik®, enable all kinds of consolidation procedures to be applied (e.g. IL, CRS, CL, CG tests).
The device has a version of Temperature controlled between -10C degrees up to +60C degrees.
- Features
- Specifications
- Software
- Standards
- Applications
- Special-compression cells to measure the consolidation behaviour of muds and viscous materials with measuring and/or pore water pressure controlling
- Special cell resistance to aggressive fluids e.g. saline solution and corrosive materials
- Special construction allows accurate measurement and control of normal stress, including measurement and compensation of wall friction influences
- Built-in filter plates in head and base plates to remove free pore water
- Multi-stage load cells allow for high levels of accuracy in control at low and high stresses
- Multi-stage load cells
Maximum axial load |
kN |
10 |
Max. Pore pressure |
kPa |
Up to 300 |
Range of Sample size |
mm cm2 |
150 / 200 176 / 314 |
Max. settlement |
% |
20 |
Sample Height |
mm |
300 |
- Performs all consolidation tests
- User-defined multiple Incremental loading & unloading
- Ability to move automatically to the next stress level
- The software can be programmed for multiple incremental loading stages
- Optional swelling pressure test
- Complete recording and displaying test results in real-time
- Live test graphs on the screen
- Automatic calculation on background
- Fully automatic testing procedure and monitoring via PC control, up to 12 devices simultaneously and independent
- Possibility to export test results to Microsoft Excel
- Integrated safety features are implemented in software
- Comprehensive status and error messages on the display/ software with a unique number for traceability
- Limit Setting
- Not available
- Detailed information will follow soon