DA Smith installs a wide spectrum of engineering instrumentation in tandem with drilling programs in rock, concrete, and soil.
Geotechnical instrumentation is commonly used to monitor structural stability in underground and surface mines, dams, and other civil infrastructure, and can provide valuable quantitative data for geologic and engineering evaluation or remedial design.
DA Smith is experienced installing and commissioning instrumentation for mines, dams, tunnels, underground laboratories, building sites, and reclamation programs. We have access to leading instrumentation through our many trusted, world-class instruments vendors, including Geokon, RST, DGSI, Roctest, ESS Earth Sciences, and Campbell Scientific. We can install instrumentation to your specifications or work with you to develop the most effective instrumentation program for your project.
- Vibrating wire load cells
- Borehole stressmeters
- Soft-inclusion stress cells
- Hydraulic borehole pressure cells
- Gas pressure monitors
- MPBXs
- TDR cables for mine subsidence
- Displacement transducers
- Convergence meters
- Roof sagmeters
- Inclinometers
- Pendulums and tiltmeters
- Piezometers
- Thermistors
- Dataloggers
- Telemetry systems
- Solar panels
- Cloud-based instrument monitoring
- CSIRO hollow-inclusion cells for long-term 3D stress monitoring
- In situ stress measurements in rock and concrete