History
A brief history of geo-centrifuge
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Era
Development
Research Group
1869
1st paper on the idea of centrifuging
Edouard Philips, Ecole Centrale/Ecole Polytechnique, France
1930s – 50s
A test on a integrity of min roof structures in rock
Research was continued in USSR for military affairs ?
Philip Bucky (Columbia Univ., USA).
Dvidenkov and Pokrovskii (USSR)
1960s
Manufacturing geotechnical centrifuges with simple data acquisition system
Cambridge Univ.
Osaka City Univ.
1970s
Manufacturing large centrifuges.
Progress in computer data acquisition system
Cambridge Univ.,
UK L.M.S,
France Osaka City Univ.,
Japan Univ. of Manchester UK
1980s
Development of earthquake simulators
Caltech, UC Davis (USA) Cambridge (UK)
L.C.P.C (France)
T.I.Tech
PWRI
PHRI (Japan)
1990s – today
Equipment for geo-environment, in flight robot, digital image acquisition