Facilities
Using
the well equipped facilities and specialised capabilities, the team
provides expert research and consultancy services to industry,
government agencies and the general public alike.
Specialised Facilities
- A strong floor 17m x 30m and 6m clearance below a 10t gantry crane, provides ample area for large structural elements and prefabricated structures
- Multi-jack test rig to simulate uniformly distributed loading on panels, sheets and members
- MTS hydraulic system for repeated loading with a capacity of 1000kN, a peak displacement of 200 mm and a maximum frequency of 30 Hz
- Dynamic jacks: 100 tonne capacity with a frequency range of 1 to 30 Hz
- Torsion and bend testing machines
- Controlled environment rooms
- Water penetration rig for walls and assemblies
- Laboratory rig for studying the behaviour of large diameter buried flexible pipes to 500 mm diameter
- Cyclic triaxial equipment for resilient modulus of soils and crushed rock
- Gemco 12 kW drilling rig with SPT hammer and assembly
- Nuclear moisture and density depth-probe
Testing Capability
- Static and repeated loading of structures and structural elements (beams, columns, slabs, walls and cladding)
- Cyclonic missile impact testing
- Stress grading of timber in accordance with AS 1749
- Creep and drying shrinkage of concrete
- Concrete properties including absorption, permeability, carbonation and chloride content
- Soil suction and permeability
- Triaxial tests on soil and rock with pore pressure measurement
Computer Modelling Capability
- Numerical analysis of structures, pavements, and footings (2D & 3D)
- Unix and PC based software for analysis of structures and the plastic analysis of geomaterials