Development of an inflight centrifuge screw pile installation and loading system

To simulate the prototype installation behaviour of screw piles at realistic confining stress lev-els, a new installation and loading rig, consisting of two independently-controlled servo-motor drive systems was developed to allow screw pile models to be installed and axially load-tested inflight in one operation at 50 g. This system was developed around the Scalable Actuator Control System architecture (SACS) recently installed on the Dundee centrifuge, based around a National Instruments compa