Heavy Structures Lab

IITH CE Heavy Structures Laboratories provides facilities to conduct conventional tests using the lab’s uniquely large strong floor, reaction walls and variety of actuators and modern instrumentation devices and sensors. The facilities are capable of inducing forces ranging from few newtons to thousands of kilonewtons & measure deformations ranging from a few thousandth of an mm to hundreds of mm.

HEICO 12000KN CTM

HEICO Compression Testing Machine with a vertical testing clearance of 2000mm.

Microtest 500kN Fatigue Testing Machine

Fatigue Testing Machine, ±500kN capacity, capable of fatigue testing of specimen made of cement materials and cement-based structural components, Composite materials and composite-based structural components, reinforced concrete, masonry and steel sections

CONTROLS Compression Testing Machine(5000kN)

Three-point & Four-point bend tests & shear tests.
Compression Tests for cubes up to 300 mm and cylinders up to diameter 250 mm.
Splitting Tensile strength of concrete.

MTS Pseudo Dynamic Test System

Hydraulic Actuators having dynamic force capacities of 1000kN & 250kN.
Testing Speed Ranges from 0.005mm/min to 500mm/min.

Microtest 3000kN Compression Testing Machine

Servo-hydraulic Computer Controlled Compression Testing Machine with a vertical testing clearance of 2000mm.

FINE SPAVY 2000kN Computer Controlled Servo Universal Testing Machine

UTM has wide range of applications test applications.

Different types of materials can be tested for a variety of tests like Tension, Compression, Shear, etc**.**

Instron 30kN Universal Testing Machine

Table Mounted Materials Testing System with testing speed range from 0.005 mm/min to 500mm/min.

HBM QuantumX: The Universal & Distributable Data Acquisition System

The QuantumX data acquisition system (DAQ) is highly precise, universal, and reliable data acquisition system. QuantumX can be combined perfectly with HBM's sensors and the Catman software to have a complete measurement and testing solution.