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Geotechnical Services
Offered
TDI-Brooks International offers a comprehensive suite of
offshore geotechincal coring and analytical services. TDI-Brooks
also works extensively with GeoScience
Earth & Marine Services, Inc (GEMS). For further information
contact Dr James M. Brooks
or Dr. Roger Fay.
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Piston and Jumbo
Piston Coring 
- 3
and 4 inch diameter piston cores, with core
lengths up to 60 Ft
- Water Depths to 12,000
Ft (4,000m)
- Portable Oceanographic
winch and hydraulic power pack
- Deployed from stern
or side of our vessels
- Pressure/depth triggered
for safety
- Adjustable Coring
Pushweight with weights up to 4,500lb
- USBL Positioned Sampling
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Box Coring
- 25 and 50cm square box
cores, with up to 500lb of push weights
- Water Depths to 12,000
Ft (4,000m)
Additional sampling techniques:
- Grab sampling, 3x2 ft
dredging, Vibracoring
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Research and Development
- Freefall penetrometer (Deepsting
II)
- Seafloor CPT (Cone penetrometer
testing)
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 Geotechnical Laboratory - Shore Based |
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- Multi-sensor core logging (sonic velocity, porosity, density and water content)
- Motorized miniature vane shear and remoulded vane shear
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Standard index tests used in classifying soils:
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- Atterberg Limits
- Water Content
- Grain Size Analysis
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Organic Content
- Carbonate Content
- Specific Gravity
- Motorized miniature Vane
Shear
- Permeability
- Thermal Conductivity
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Our laboratory has performed
the testing required for pipeline site survey studies
and Salvage operations (the Ehime Maru).
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