LaboratoryStructures Wing Lab

The Structures Wing Lab at UC provide hands-on learning and research opportunities in earthquake engineering, materials testing, and building components. The lab comprises two large prestressed concrete strong floors (104 m2 and 28.7 m2) for structural testing. It is serviced by a 7.5 T overhead gantry crane. Equipment includes: • 10 MN Dartec Universal Testing Machine with MTS FlexTest40 controller • Hydraulic actuators with capacity up to ±2,000 kN, and strokes of ±200 mm • 1,000 kN Avery Universal Testing Machine • 100 kN Avery Universal Testing Machine • 2,500 kN Avery Block Testing Machine • Uniaxial 8 m2 shaking table with maximum displacement ±150 mm, maximum velocity ±100 cm/sec, maximum acceleration ±1 g, and loading mass 200 kN. The laboratory is well-equipped with movable reaction frames and instrumentation, including load cells, accelerometers, LVDTs, and potentiometers. A number of digital controllers and data acquisition units are also available.

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• Quasi-static seismic testing
• Component testing
• Shake table testing

• Guillaume Roux

  Structures Laboratory Engineer

  guillaume.roux@canterbury.ac.nz

• Civil and Environmental Engineering

• Civil and Mechanical Building

• Available for internal & external use