Learn more about Pressure Cells

RST’s Total Earth Pressure Cells are best for applications in soils such as earth embankments, dams, foundations, retaining walls, and piles. They can be supplied in a choice of two diameters and with mounting ears if required to be directly mounted to a contact surface.

Vibrating Wire Push-In Pressure Cells can also be supplied to support soil investigation programs, and can be simply pushed into soil to measure both total earth pressure and pore water pressure. Once in place, these Pressure Cells also monitor changes in active and passive pressure.
Both models of Pressure Cell can be supplied in a wide variety of calibrated pressure ranges to suit the expected pressures of the application.

As the sensors are Vibrating Wire in technology, they can easily be monitored either manually using an RST VW2106 Vibrating Wire Readout. For a fully automated system, they can used together with an RSTAR Affinity Datalogger and RSTAR Affinity Gateway for remote access to the data.