ABSTRACT
These reviews highlight the technical contributions of physical modelling to the practice of geotechnical design. There are other types of benefit that arise from this form of collaboration, which are explored in this chapter. The purpose of the paper is to present the practice and benefits of collaboration between industry and institutes that host large physical modelling facilities. It is useful to reflect on this practice, since industry collaboration potentially provides the necessary sustenance of large facilities. Indeed, in the closing sentence of his 1984 review, Craig wrote:
“If centrifuge work is to continue, it should have a positive role beyond phenomenological studies and the development of design rules by parametric variations in idealised, non specifi c models.”
