ISSN: 0149-6115
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Hollow Cylinder Specimen Preparation: Cohesive Materials

Crockford, WW
Assistant research engineer,Texas Transportation Institute, Texas A&M University,TX,

Sousa, J
Assistant research engineer,Institute of Transportation Studies, University of California—Berkeley,CA,

Abstract

Techniques for rapid and precise fabrication of hollow cylinder specimens of cohesive materials are presented. A device to accelerate the displacement sensor mounting process is described.

Keywords:
cores, cylinders, triaxial tests, hollow cylinder, displacement measurement, gyratory compaction, molding process, coring

Paper ID: GTJ10023J
DOI: 10.1520/GTJ10023J
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