Facilities

Structural Testing Facilities of the Institute for Infrastructure Engineering:

The Structural Research and Testing Laboratory of the Institute for Infrastructure Engineering at the UWS Kingswood campus holds NATA accreditation No. 14711 since 2003 and complies with ISO/IEC 17025:2005 for providing Mechanical Testing Services.

These services include both static and dynamic testing of materials, structural components and assemblies at the research laboratory or on site.

Structural Testing facilities and scope:

  • Multi-purpose structural testing facility for testing specimens and assemblies up to 4000m high at:
    • 10000kN ( 1000 tonne ) static compressive load
    • Simultaneous 1000kN lateral fluctuating load at 3 Hz
    • Simultaneous loading with dual actuators at 500kN tilting load each at 3Hz synchronous or asynchronous loading.
  • Loading frames up to 5000kN (500 tonnes). These frames are complemented by multi-configurable strong floor of 16m x 8m with numerous actuators ranging from 150kN to 2000kN.\
  • Impact testing of materials using Split Hopkinsons Pressure Bar system for specimen sizes16mm and 80mm.
  • Research Furnace for testing structural specimens at 2000kN compressive load at temperatures up to 800 0 C.
  • Testing for dynamic characteristics of structures, concrete floors, buildings, assemblies, modal analysis for structures and assemblies.
  • Microwave sensor technology for defect detection, non destructive testing of material and material characterisation
  • Testing and advice on material and granular flow and behaviour
  • Infrastructure health monitoring services using wired and wireless sensor technology

The research and industry consultation projects carried out at the NATA accredited Structural Testing Laboratory are served with state of the art instrumentation and data acquisition system backed by a CPU/GPU based High Performing Computer cluster with computational power of 2060 GigaFLOPS (One GigaFLOP is equivalent to one billion (109) floating-point operations per second).

Testing Laboratory
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