ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,534,865, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Xi'an University of Technology (Xi'an, China).
"Dynamic settlement in-situ dynamic test bench and test method for foundation soil" was invented by Shengjun Shao (Xi'an, China), Shuai Shao (Xi'an, China), Jiang Wu (Xi'an, China) and Xiaowu Ma (Xi'an, China).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An in-situ dynamic settlement test bench and method for the foundation soil is provided. The in-situ dynamic settlement test bench includes a vibration table system, a sensor embedded in the foundation soil, and a water injection trench around the foundation soil. A horizontal vibration load is applied to the low...