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Research and Developement at GeoDelft are managed strongly from the principle of the Innovation Cycle: knowledge development takes place in a permanent feedback loop starting with conceptual and possibly mathematical modeling, subsequent application in consultancy and subject to field verification, evaluation of differences between model prediction and actual outcome, physical modelling in order to reveal partial mechanisms and finally reformulation of the mathematical models.
GeoDelft has developed a number of interesting experimental and physical model facilities. Beside specialised experimental test cells like the sludge cells Hydcon and Gascon to study the consolidation process of dredged harbour sludge, large model containers of several cubic meters are used to perform full scale experiments on all types of soil mechanical and (solute) transport behaviour. Since the 1980’s the GeoCentrifuge is operational which is one of the most powerful geotechnical scale model facilities in the world.
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