ABSTRACT
The COPPE geotechnical centrifuge (Gurung et al. 1998) is a 1.0 m diameter mini-drum manufactured by APV Baker, UK, under the direction of G-Max in 1995 (Figure 1). The whole machine is
1 INTRODUCTION
1.1 Role of centrifuge modelling
Physical modelling plays an important role in modern Geotechnics as it aims to create a scaled model that enables to provide a physical understanding of a phenomenon associated with a real problem.
