ABSTRACT
The Scott-Morgan report on the “Feasibility and Desirability of Constructing a Very Large Centrifuge for Geotechnical Studies” was an outcome of a workshop on Geotechnical Centrifuge Modelling sponsored by the National Science Foundation at the California Institute of Technology in December 1975. This report has become a standard reference for many US research proposals and results. The special preprint volume on Centrifuge Modelling of Geotechnical Problems indicated the development of a geotechnical centrifuge research centre at the University of California, Davis, with two small centrifuges in operation. Prevost, at Princeton University, has a small centrifuge and, with his colleagues, has investigated the dynamic response of laterally loaded piles, buckling of a spherical dome, dynamic soil structure interaction, and subsurface wave reflections. In 1982, Clark called together a workshop on “High Gravity Simulation for Research in Rock Mechanics” at the Colorado School of Mines in the hope of raising interest in a large high-g machine for research in mining problems.
