Geotechnical Laboratory

Geotechnical Laboratory

John A. Reif, Jr. Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Geotechnical

The geotechnical group studies the multi-scale damage mechanisms in rocks with application to subsurface energy production and storage. Topics under investigation include hydraulic fracturing, induced seismicity and thermal-induced damage of rocks.

Research Highlights
 
• Laboratory device designed at NJIT to conduct energy-related research: https://engineering.njit.edu/news/makerspace-debut-custom-designed-instrument-energy-exploration
• NSF awards research grant for geothermal-related project: https://nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1738081&HistoricalAwards=false
• NSF awards research grant for Remediation of Contaminated Sediments with Ultrasound and Ozone Nano-bubbles:
• NSF awards research grant for I-Corps: Coupled High and Low-Frequency Ultrasonic for the Destruction of Organics:
• USEPA awards research grant for Remediation of PFAS Contaminated Soils and Sediments: https://cfpub.epa.gov/ncer_abstracts/index.cfm/fuseaction/display.abstractDetail/abstract/11114/report/0
• Energy-related research conducted at NJIT: https://njbiz.com/makerspace-built-device-aids-njit-fracking-study/

 

Resource Groups

 

Laboratory Facilities

The Geotechnical Laboratory consists of a teaching lab and three research labs. These laboratories encompass approximately 1000 sqft. of the available laboratory space with all major regular laboratory functioning facilities such as microbalances, sieves stacks, and sieve shaker, oven, and etc. Additional important and relevant instrument include:

• Geotest Triaxial Testing System
• 5g-Ton Centrifuge 
• MTS® 815 Rock Mechanics testing system including confinement cell
• Acoustic Emission System Mistras® with P-wave sensors (Physical Acoustic Corporation®)
• P- and S-wave Acoustic Emission Sensors (Omega®)
• High-Speed Video Camera (Phantom® AX200)
• High-Resolution cameras (Canon®) including macroscopic lens
• Sonic & Materials, Inc., Model Vibracell VC-1500, 240 V, Power 1500 W, and Frequency 20 kHz 
• BT-50FR micro-nano-sized nozzle for nanobubble generation
• A2Z Ozone MP - 3000 Multipurpose Ozone Generator
• Oscilloscope (Keysight®)
• Wave generator (Keysight®)
• Syringe pumps (Teledyne ISCO®)
• Laser cutter

Faculty Researchers

  • Jay Meegoda
  • Bruno Goncalves da Silva

Research Sponsors

  • NSF
  • USEPA
  • USDOT
  • CAIT