Civil Engineering Facilities

Our Civil Engineering Department facilities include state-of-the-art Concrete, Geo/Soils, Fluids and Structural Teaching laboratories. All labs are equipped with the latest technology, giving students invaluable real-world experience, making them highly sought after by top employers upon graduation.

Concrete Lab

• 1000KN Universal Structures Test machine, compression test machine that can accommodate structures or samples up to 1.8 meters in height and up to 4.5 meters in length. 
• 1000KN, 250KN & 10KN universal test machines (UTM) suitable for compression and tensile testing of materials, used to attain characteristics and properties of various materials. 
• Concrete production facility for manufacturing test specimens and assessment of fresh concrete workability: 
• Industrial rotating pan concrete mixers, small & large 
• Concrete curing tank 

• Workability apparatus: Slump test, compaction factor, flow table, L-Box, V-Funnel, Slump flow, J-Ring 
• Industrial Concrete/mortar testing suite for measuring compressive, splitting and flexural strengths of specimens. 
• Rebarscope, Ultrasonic tester & digital Schmidt hammer. 
• Aggregate grading and crush testing 
• 250KN structural test area for testing structures, includes a range of hydraulic cylinders and instrumentation used to apply and measure forces in a bespoke manner. 
• Skid resistance tester for slabs & pavers 
• Industrial compaction equipment 

Geo/Soils Lab

• Triaxial test machine, unconsolidated/undrained test 
• Shearbox test machine 
• Odeometer 
• Permeability of granular soils equipment 
• Automatic soil compactor 
• Plastic and liquid limit of soils apparatus 
• Californian Bearing Ratio CBR test machine  
• Sieve analysis set 

Structures Teaching Lab Experiments

• Forces in an Overdeterminate Truss 
• Buckling Behaviour of Bars: Euler theory 
• Deformation of Straight Beams 
• Plastic bending of portals 
• Deformation of frames 
• Parabolic arch 
• Forces on a suspension bridge 
• Three hinged Arch bridge 
• Plastic bending deformation of straight beams 

Surveying Equipment

• Rotating laser level 
• Auto levels 
• Total stations/Traverse kits  
• GPS surveying equipment 
• High-speed stereo HD video camera system 
• A dual high-speed camera system capable of strain analysis 

Fluids Lab

• 5 Meter experimental flume/Flow channel with wave generator 
• 2.5 Meter experimental flumes/Flow channels 
• Bernoulli, Forces of a Jet, Flow over Weir, Visualisation of Streamlines, Vortex Formation, Osborne Reynolds number, Pipe friction for laminar/turbulent flow and Hydrostatic pressure of Liquids experiments