We make significant investments in developing excellent facilities and laboratories. We have dedicated labs for structures, geotechnics and fluid mechanics, as well as an extensive range of surveying equipment, which is used for both research and teaching purposes at undergraduate and postgraduate levels. We will also have a new strong floor facility for major structural testing.
Concrete laboratory
Equipment includes:
- 1 x tensile test and compression test apparatus
- 2 x concrete mixer
- 1 x vibrating table
- 1 x mortar mixer
- 1 x curing box
- 1 x cube tester
- 1 x drying over
- 2 x slump cone
- 3 x base plate
- 3 x vibrator
- 1 x sieve shaker
- 3 x concrete sieve set
- 6 x cube mould
- 3 x prism mould
- 3 x cylinder mould
Geotechnics laboratory
Equipment includes:
- 2 x triaxial test apparatus
- 1 x GDS automated stress path cell
- 1 x GDS variable direction dynamic cyclic simple shear system
- 6 x direct shear apparatus
- 1 x soil description set
- 2 x constant head permeability apparatus
- 3 x falling head permeability apparatus
- 3 x cone penetrometer
- 3 x sieve
- 3 x sieve shaker
GNSS laboratory
Equipment includes:
- Spirent GSS8000 GPS, GLONASS, Galileo and BeiDou hardware simulator
- Leica GR25, GS10 (4x) and GR10 GNSS receivers, and Leica AR20, Leica AR25 and JAVAD RingAnt-DM choke ring antennas
- Unicore UR240-CORS-II and UR240-RTK GPS, GLONASS, Galileo, BeiDou, QZSS and SBAS GNSS receivers
- 2 x JAVAD SIGMA tracking GPS, GLONASS, Galileo, QZSS and SBAS
- 2 x JAVAD TRIUMPH-VS tracking GPS, GLONASS, Galileo, BeiDou, QZSS and SBAS
- 2 x Leica Nivel210 precision inclination sensors
- 2 x U-Blox NEO-7P high sensitivity receiver tracking GPS, GLONASS, Galileo and QZSS with PPP service
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Fluid mechanics laboratory
Equipment includes:
- 3 x vortex apparatus
- 3 x jet apparatus
- 3 x centrifugal pump apparatus
- 3 x Kelvin-Helmhotz tank
- 5 x friction loss in a pipe set
- 5 x venturi meter
- 1 x cylindrical tank jet set
- 1 x Reynolds number and transitional flow set
- 1 x TecQuipment H400 cavitation demonstration unit
Photogrammetry and remote measurements laboratory
Equipment includes:
- 1x Leica HDS7000 laser scanner
- 1x Faro Focus3D laser scanner
- 2x Planar StereoMirror
- 2x Nikon D300S digital camera
- 1x Canon 5D Mark II digital camera
- Leica Photogrammetry Suite
- Photometrix Australis
- Photometrix iWitnessPro
- Intergraph ERDAS IMAGINE
- Exelis Envi IDL
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Solid laboratory
Equipment includes:
- 6 x Deflections of Beams and Cantilevers teaching apparatus
- 6 x Bending Stress in a Beam teaching apparatus
- 6 x Torsion of Circular Sections teaching apparatus
- 6 x Buckling of Struts teaching apparatus
- 2 x Bending Moment in a Beam teaching apparatus
- 1 x Continuous and Indeterminate Beams teaching apparatus
- 2 x Shear Force in a Beam teaching apparatus
- 2 x Plastic Bending teaching apparatus