An Innovative System for Testing of Contaminated Soft Sediments
- Resource Type
- Conference
- Authors
- Sollecito, Francesca; Bottiglieri, Osvaldo; Cotecchia, Federica; Miccoli, Daniela; Todaro, Francesco; Vitone, Claudia; Adamo, Francesco; Andria, Gregorio; Nisio, Attilio Di; Maria Lucia Lanzolla, Anna; Spadavecchia, Maurizio
- Source
- 2018 IEEE International Workshop on Metrology for the Sea; Learning to Measure Sea Health Parameters (MetroSea) Metrology for the Sea; Learning to Measure Sea Health Parameters (MetroSea), 2018 IEEE International Workshop on. :120-124 Oct, 2018
- Subject
- Communication, Networking and Broadcast Technologies
Components, Circuits, Devices and Systems
Computing and Processing
Engineering Profession
General Topics for Engineers
Geoscience
Signal Processing and Analysis
Transportation
Sediments
Software
Data acquisition
Soil
Pollution measurement
Fluids
Transducers
Geotechnical characterisation
polluted sediments
laboratory tests
automatic test system
linear displacement transducers.
- Language
This paper reports the results of the preliminary mechanical laboratory experiments carried out on the shallowest layer of the polluted submarine clayey sediments of the Mar Piccolo basin (literally "Little Sea"), an inner sea located in Taranto (South of Italy). By the strict cooperation between Geotechnical Engineering and Measurement Science researchers, a test platform has been designed and realised to test samples with fluid-plastic consistency taken within the first meter below the seafloor. The designed measurement system and the suggested procedure of acquisition and data processing allow for a reliable marine behaviour assessment and they ensure both the human safety and the sample quality.