Our Equipment

Polyaxial Cell

  • True triaxial cell
  • Sample size up to 400 x 400 x 400
  • Relatively large sample size
  • True triaxial loading + fluid flow control
  • Borehole monitoring

​’Wet’ Polyaxial Cell

  • Cubic sample, sized 200 (or 120) mm
  • ~60 MPa x 3 directions
  • ~10 MPa pore pressure
  • Borehole displacement measurement and video capturing

Field Injection Equipment

  • Cat-Weir triplex pump system (HFP003 and HFP004)
  • Up to 600 L/min and 60 MPa
  • 1000m of hardened injection rods (rated 100MPa)
  • Injection rod packers and injection tools

Monitoring Equipment

  • 50 Jewel self levelling borehole tiltmeters 
  • Wireless sensor nodes (pods) 

Fracture Mechanic Simulators

  • MLP3D
  • OpenCSMP — Fracturing modules for Complex Systems Modelling Platform (CSMP++)
  • Abaqus (FEM/XFEM)
  • Access to Pawsey Super Computer