GeoLab, a measurement system for the geotechnical characterization of polluted submarine sediments

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.