The Centre is involved in collaborative projects ranging from medium-term contract research to specialist testing for specific offshore developments.

• Specialist laboratory testing of soil and rock. Our laboratory is equipped with triaxial and simple shear apparatus, constant normal stiffness and rod shear testing devices, and is the primary source for advanced soil testing in Western Australia.
• World-leading centrifuge modelling capabilities, using our beam and drum centrifuges. Project-specific design studies have been undertaken in relation to driven piles, suction caissons, shallow foundations (with and without skirts), drag anchors, ship impact protection and pipelines.
• Micro-structural studies using x-ray, scanning electron microscopy and tomographic techniques.
• Numerical modelling skills, with finite element programs such as AFENA, CRISP, ABAQUS, including specialist enhancements such as large deformation capabilities and advanced constitutive models.
• Novel penetrometers, self-boring pressuremeters, and in situ torsional vane and plate loading devices, for strength profiling in soft soils.
• Advanced computational fluid dynamics modelling of vortex shedding and scour around pipelines.

The Centre has direct links to local consulting companies. These links provide an avenue for rapid technology transfer from research into practice, and direct access to specialist expertise and services as required.