Geotech Transducers

Transducers convert one form of energy to another. Transducers serve several engineering applications for sensing pressure, altitude, depth and flow sensing. They help in data collecting, control feedback and systems monitoring. Slentech offers a wide range of Geotech Transducers for geotechnical and civil engineering applications: Surface displacement transducer, soil pressure transducer, stress transducer, inclination transducer, pore pressure transducer, soil moisture transducer and strain transducer. Listed below are the applications of some of these transducers.

Inclination transducers help to monitor the state of inclination of civil engineering structures and neighbouring structures. The inclination can be measured in one direction and also in both X and Y directions.

Pore pressure transducers help in measuring pore water pressure in boreholes, ground, piles and sheet piles and even bedrocks. These transducers can either be attached to the wall or buried in the ground to get an accurate measurement of the pore water pressure.

These transducers have been widely used for a variety of civil engineering and construction applications. Soil pressure transducers help to measure soil pressure for a core zone. These core zones are present when building rockfill dam and underground earth retaining wall.

The strain in all types of materials used in civil engineering, is generally measured by using strain transducer. Engineering materials such as concrete and resin undergo strain during their transition from compliant state to hardening state. These transducers are an excellent way to measure strain during the early stages of curing as they do not absorb moisture and give a stable long-term strain measurement.

Surface displacement transducers help in measuring a wide range of displacement in the civil structures, machinery, elongation and cracks during material testing.

Water level transducers are used to measure the level of water in rivers, dams and also the level of underground water in grounds which are prone to landslides.