Welcome to the Newmark Structural Engineering Laboratory, a world-class facility dedicated in 1967 to advancing research, education, and industry innovations in structural and materials engineering.
This 30,000 sq. ft. institutional laboratory is equipped with a 130′ strong floor, a 30′ reaction wall, and 8 load frames up to 1,000,000 lbf to carry out a wide range of testing configurations on structural concrete, timber, steel and alloys, masonry, composites, etc.
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NSEL is not only available for the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering but also for other universities, research and forensic laboratories, manufacturers, engineering firms, and construction companies.
Facility
The laboratory houses a fully staffed machine shop, welding shop, wood shop, instrumentation workshop, environmental chamber, and concrete laboratory.
Staff
The laboratory is actively serving over 60 faculty members and more than 500 scholars and graduate students through research activities, class demonstrations, hands-on laboratories, and student competitions.
Load Frames
The laboratory is permanently equipped with 8 servo-hydraulic load frames for uniaxial and biaxial dynamic testing with capacities ranging from 5.5 kips (25 kN) to 1,000 kips (4.5 MN).
Strong Floor
This laboratory has a 50′ x 130′ strong floor with anchoring points on a 36″ spacing interval.
Reaction Wall
The laboratory was equipped in 2004 with a 30′ high L-shaped reaction wall with anchoring points on a 18″ spacing interval.
Single Actuators
The laboratory uses a wide range of servo-hydraulic and manual actuators in conjunction with the strong floor, reaction wall, and fixtures for complex or customized testing configurations.
Testing Fixtures
Multiple testing fixtures are readily available to be used in conjunction with our testing floor, reaction wall, loading frames, and single actuators. Our various shops also have the capacity to manufacture custom fixtures in a wide variety of materials.
Instrumentation
NSEL uses both traditional and non-contact sensing methods, such as 2D and 3D digital image correlation (DIC) and 3D coordinate measuring machine (CMM).