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Professor Andrew Schofield
A pioneer in the field of soil mechanics, Schofield developed drum centrifuges in Cambridge to reduce the cost of centrifuge tests, to improve the accuracy, and reduce the labour and the time needed for any one test series. A centrifuge manufacturer in the UK, Thomas Broadbent & Sons Ltd. was granted an exclusive licence to incorporate the new intellectual property US Patent 5,634,876 in their "Geotech" centrifuges. One of these came into in operation in Australia, Stewart, Boyle, and Randolph (1998); the next three in Japan; and a fifth is to operate in Switzerland. It is safe to stand by these machines. There is no need to build a reinforced concrete chamber. The centrifuge channel that applies the acceleration to the model layer also contains the soil safely. |