Burton, Braswell, Middlebrooks Laboratory
Large-scale Laboratory for Structures & Infrastructure
The large-scale structures laboratory at UCF was completed in 2001 in Engineering Building II. It is designed for testing research-related large-scale structural components and systems, infrastructure systems, materials, and performing teaching labs for undergraduate classes.
Facility
- 1600 square feet testing area, 2400 square feet total area.
- 50 ft by 25 ft strong floor in a high-bay area.
- Steel reaction frame.
- Reconfigurable reinforced concrete reactor blocks
- 20-ton overhead crane.
- 3 ft by 3 ft tie-down pattern in the strong floor.
- 100 kips tie-down capacity per point.
Equipment
The laboratory has several hydraulic systems for actuation as well as numerous other pieces of equipment for small-scale tests, data acquisition, and sensing.
- Two 110-kip, +/- 10 in. MTS servo-controlled hydraulic actuators
- Four 100-ton hydraulic jacks
- 200-kip Instron/Satec Universal Loading Machine
- Multi-channel NI-SCXI data acquisition systems
- High shear mixer
- Various transducers and sensors
- Different types of PZT and capacitive, wired, and wireless accelerometers
- Different types of resistive and vibrating wire, high speed, and slow speed strain gages
- Tiltmeters
- Displacement transducers
- A number of other sensors, including sound, pressure, current, and audio/visual, and weather
