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