Facilities

The centre plans to build the following high-quality and some of them innovative testing equipment. Some of them have already been commissioned, and others are expected to be available soon.

Four shaking table system

• Structural dynamic testing for seismic performance and responses
• Spatially varying ground motions
• Size: 1 meter × 1 meter
• Specimen Mass at maximum acceleration: 800 kg
• Frequency of operation: 0.1~50 Hz Sinusoidal or Random waveforms

Two hydraulic actuators

• Perform quasi-static loading tests
• Capacity: 1000 kN
• Stroke: ±250mm
• Maximum speed: 350mm/min

Photron high-speed camera

• Capture high strain rate deformation and failure
• Mega pixel resolution at 21,000 frames per second
• 1280×1024 pixel resolution at 4,000 frames per second

Split hopkinson pressure bar

• High strain rate material testing

Impact machine

• Impact testing for the resistance and failure behaviour of materials or components

Air cannon impact testing facility

• Impact tests to simulate wind borne debris impact to structural components

Vibration measurement system

• Vibration testing for structures
• 16 channel
• Accelerometers, laser displacement sensors, strain gauges

APS long stroke shaker

BeanDevice Wireless measurement system

• 8 tri-axial accelerometers
• sampling rate up to 4k per second per channel

Loading Testing Machine

Pendulum Impact System

Dytran Instrumented Hammers

• Use to excite structures with a definable impulse force, for the purpose of studying their dynamic behaviour.
• Range: 5000 LB

Phantom 4 Pro UAV

• Image and video taken for rapid structural inspection and
  condition monitoring

Heavy Testing Rigs (Reaction Frames)

Shimadzu Ags-X Universal Testing Machine

• Material tensile and compressive strength testing
• Maximum load capacity: 300 kN

Controls Universal Flexural Frame

• Displacement controlled testing on advanced construction materials
• Double testing modes: parallel and orthogonal

Data Logger, Sensors, Etc