PE Lab Key Facilities

Strong Floor, Reaction Wall & Test Rigs
The strong floor and the strong reaction wall have over 2000 anchor holes placed at a uniform spacing of 600mm in two orthogonal directions. Therefore, the test-rigs (8 sets with 2000kN capacity) can be placed and oriented in almost any direction to suit a particular test. The laboratory has the capability to perform 18 simultaneous tests of specimens with 9m length each.

The L-shaped reaction wall is 6m/8m high. It can carry more than 100 tons of lateral load per square metre of wall area. With the size and strength of the reaction wall, the PE lab can easily perform a complete test of a full-scale 3-D building of 3-storey high. The strong floor is strong enough for testing an 800mm-thick concrete flat plate slab under punching load.

Hydraulic Power Pack System

• 2 sets of Hydraulic Power Packs are connected in series
• Total flow rate up to 1000 liter/min
• Operating pressure of 21 MPa (3000 psi)
• 8 sets of hydraulic manifolds with 22 outlets

Linear Hydraulic Actuators

• 10 units of dynamic / pseudo dynamic actuators
• Capacity: 500-1000KN
• Displacement: 250-1000mm
• Control system can support up to eight control channels

MTS Electronic control system

• 2 sets of MTS Flex Test GT Controller
  • 1 set with 4 channel output
  • 1 set with 6 channel output
• Creation of complex test procedures that include command, data acquisition, event detection, and external control instructions

Shake Table

• Uni-axis Horizontal Shake Table
• 30-ton Servo-Hydraulic Actuator
• 3m x 3m Steel Table Top
• +/- 200mm Maximum Dynamic Displacement
• Performance with 10Ton Max Nominal Payload:
• 1.3g Max Acceleration
• 0.8m/s Max Velocity
• 4.0g Acceleration with No Payload
• Frequency Range: 0-50Hz to Over 100Hz
• Sine, Random, Impulse, Arbitrary Waveform

The Shake Table can be used to test large-scale structural components and reduced-scale model structures under simulated earthquake ground motions as well as blast-induced ground shocks.