GeoLab, a Measurement System for the Geotechnical Characterization of Polluted Submarine Sediments

Abstract In this paper an integrated system (hardware and software), named GeoLab, for geotechnical measurement on submarine contaminated sediments is described; GeoLab permits to reduce the probability of human mistakes often made during long and repetitive manual operations and, to increase speed, accuracy, and productivity in geotechnical laboratory tests. A new, suitable management software was developed to permit the communication with different data acquisition platforms and to easily adapt software in case of changes in the laboratory procedures.