N8 Equipment

Amsler 100kN tension/compression 400kN 1000kN 2000kN compression,Servo-hydraulic actuators complete with integral load cells

AMTI BP400600 Force platform with amplifier

APS Dynamics electrodynamic shakers with amplifiers (2 off model 113) for multi-shaker modal testing of civil engineering structures. Shakers can provide a wide range of harmonic, chirp and random excitation signals. Custom-built horizontal reaction mass

Carbonation chamber (2.3m x 1.5m x 1.2m depth)

Churchill Controls Ltd wave monitor (3 channels)

Computer controlled cyclic triaxial system with loading frame for 38mm, 50mm and 100mm specimens, instrumentation and data acquisition software

Constant and falling head permeameters, unsaturated soil flow cell

Contaminated ingress pipe leakage test rig for the analysis of transient pressure and pipe leakage behaviour, consisting of 150m of 63mm diameter water distribution pipework, flow control, flow, pressure and on-line water quality instrumentation

Controls Testing Equipment 3000kN capacity automatic compression testing machine with data manager software

Controls Testing Equipment 54-C0170/F wet concrete air entrainment meter, 7ltr capacity

Cyclic triaxial test cell for specimens of 230 mm diameter x 460 mm, fitted with 10kN fatigue rated load cell. Hydraulic cyclic loading and monitoring system with capacity of up to 2Hz

Denison 500kN tension/compression,Servo-hydraulic actuators with integral load cells

Double walled triaxial system for the testing of granular materials, instrumentation and monitoring equipment, 150mm diameter x 375mm

Eland 10kN 600mm stroke 50kN 200mm stroke 130kN 400mm stroke tension/compression Digital servo-hydraulic controllers linked to data acquisition systems and PCs capable of controlling tests in any measurable quantity

Environmental temperature and humidity controlled room (3m x 2.2m x 3m height, temperature range 20 to 60c and 40 to 98% relative humidity)

Fissons Environmental Equipment freeze/thaw conditioning cabinet, +/- 25c, 0.75m3 capacity

Flexible boundary triaxial clay calibration chamber 0.75m diameter x 1.0m with constant pressure hydraulic pump/cylinder for 1D consolidation

Flume, 0.5m wide x 0.54m deep glass-sided 16m long tilting sediment transport flume (with variable flow control and a bed load trap)

Flume,1.22m wide x 0.5m deep GRP 17m long

GDS stress path test equipment including 2off 100mm hydraulic cells with instrumentation, internal load cells and "Hall effect" small strain measurement transducers and GDS pressure controllers (6off) and Keyence laser system for displacement me

Green roof test rigs, 11 items 3m x 1m with rainfall collection and monitoring instrumentation

Highway gulley drainage and surcharge test rig (5.4m x 2.4m)

Hydraulic pile driving system with displacement control, instrumentation and monitoring equipment, 25kN load and 600mm displacement

Image Processing Equipment - camera, monitoring and recording equipment and processing software - Laser Induced Fluorescence (LIF) applications

Kern 16kg balance

Laser Doppler Anemometer (LDA)

Laser Doppler Anemometer (LDA) submersible probe with 20m fibre optic cable connection for remote 2D velocity measurement

Losenhausen 250kN 500kN 150mm stroke tension/compression, Digital servo-hydraulic controllers linked to data acquisition systems and PCs capable of controlling tests in any measurable quantity

Minilase Nd Yag laser for particle image velocimetry (PIV) with digital cross correlation cameras (2off) and Flowmap processor/software

Particle Image Velocimetry Equipment (PIV)