CEN Facilities

CEN Facilities

CEN Facilities

The Department of Civil Engineering has six laboratory facilities located on the second and third floors and in the basement of the Engineering Building. The equipment in the CEN facilities is worth over RMB 10 million, covering the core disciplines of structural engineering, materials, geotechnical engineering, hydraulics and environmental engineering in support of teaching and research.

Explore the six laboratories below. Each page lists all facilities and equipment in that laboratory.

Our six laboratories

Structural Laboratory

Structural Laboratory

Loading systems up to 500 t, universal and triaxial testers, concrete mixers, autoclave, freeze-thaw and carbonation equipment.

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Geotechnical Laboratory

Geotechnical Laboratory

Triaxial tester, consolidation test system and rheometer for soil mechanics and deformation testing.

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Hydraulic Laboratory

Hydraulic Laboratory

Flow demonstrators, an open-channel flume and Bernoulli testers for flow velocity, flow pattern and hydraulic model experiments.

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Environmental Laboratory

Environmental Laboratory

Sample composition analysers and simultaneous thermal analysis (TGA/DSC) instruments for environmental sample testing.

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Mechanics Laboratory

Mechanics Laboratory

Pneumatic universal testing machine and structural mechanics rigs for beam bending, shear and truss strain demonstration.

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Intelligent Built Environment Lab

Intelligent Built Environment Lab

Tracked visual robot, 3D laser scanner and industrial-grade visual drone for inspection, monitoring and digital surveying.

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Structural Laboratory

Structural Laboratory

Geotechnical Laboratory

Geotechnical Laboratory

Hydraulic Laboratory

Hydraulic Laboratory

Environmental Laboratory

Environmental Laboratory

Mechanics Laboratory

Mechanics Laboratory

Intelligent Built Environment Lab

Intelligent Built Environment Lab