Science

Genesis Geotechnics Ltd (Genesis) is Broadbent’s specialist science and applications partner, working closely within the Broadbent engineering team to help clients turn research and testing requirements into practical centrifuge solutions.

With around 20 years’ experience in experimental science and engineering and more than 15 years focused on high-acceleration test environments, Genesis provides client-facing support from the earliest machine concept through to end-user operation. This includes defining test requirements, developing one-off experimental facilities and specialist test packages, supporting civil engineering and infrastructure requirements for installation, and providing commissioning, consultancy and operator training.

By combining Broadbent’s centrifuge engineering capability with Genesis’ experimental and application expertise, clients receive support for the complete test environment—not simply the centrifuge machine itself.

Genesis supports the development and integration of specialist experimental systems for centrifuge and high-g research environments, providing both individual test components and complete turnkey solutions tailored to the client’s research programme.

• In-flight actuation systems — specialist loading and movement systems for applying controlled actions to models during centrifuge operation.
• Electromechanical actuation — servo-controlled loading systems for displacement, load and cyclic test programmes.
• Pneumatic systems — controlled air-driven systems for actuation, pressure application and experimental control.
• Hydraulic and fluid systems — hydraulic actuation, fluid delivery, pressure control and specialist fluid-transfer arrangements for in-flight testing.
• Fluid simulation systems — bespoke systems for reproducing flooding, seepage, infiltration, rainfall, drainage and other fluid-driven processes.
• Probing and investigation instruments — in-flight probing equipment including penetration, vane, sampling and specialist soil-characterisation devices.
• Sensors and instrumentation — integration of load, pressure, displacement, acceleration, strain, temperature and other specialist sensors.
• Turnkey model-design systems — complete experimental packages incorporating model containers, fixtures, loading systems, instrumentation and control hardware.
• Image-analysis systems — camera, illumination and image-processing systems for monitoring deformation, movement and failure mechanisms during testing.
• Material-preparation systems — specialist equipment for preparing repeatable soil and material specimens prior to centrifuge testing.
• Consolidation systems — controlled preparation and consolidation of clay and other fine-grained materials to defined stress and drainage conditions.
• Pluviation systems — controlled sand deposition systems for producing repeatable model densities and stratigraphies.

From a single in-flight instrument to a complete experimental facility, Genesis develops specialist systems around the test requirement, helping you move from research concept through preparation, testing, measurement and analysis.