SEMM Facilities
The School of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Georgia Tech is equipped with state-of-the-art laboratories and instruments, appropriate for all aspects of modern structural engineering and structural mechanics and materials research. Some of these are:
- An 18,000-ft. 2 Structures and Materials Laboratory with an 8,000 ft. 2 strong floor, an L-shaped reaction wall with capacities of 100 to 300 kips, and two 30-ton-capacity cranes.
- A broad range of universal testing machines, with capacity to 400 kips
- Specialized facilities for mechanical testing with infra-red thermography and photoelastic stress/strain analysis
- A nondestructive evaluation/optics laboratory
- A laser scanning confocal microscope
- Numerous workstations running software such as GTSTRUDL, RAM Xlinea, DRAIN2DX, DRAIN3DX, SAP2000, ABAQUS, and OpenSEES.